This section contains a mix of wisdom from all sources about life and the human condition.
Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.— Arnold H. Glasow
Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement.— Rita Mae Brown
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.— Anatole France
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.— President Abraham Lincoln (R)
We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm.— George Orwell
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.— Hannah Arendt
So, let us not be blind to our differences—but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.— President John F. Kennedy (D)
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.— Dante Alighieri
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.— Robert Frost
Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.— Jean Cocteau
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.— Oscar Wilde
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.— Sir Winston Churchill
Creative thinkers make many false starts, and continually waver between unmanageable fantasies and systematic attack.— Harry Hepner
Your love is your own private possession, but marriage is more than something personal—it is a status, an office. Just as it is the crown, and not merely the will to rule, that makes the king, so it is marriage, and not merely your love for each other, that joins you together in the sight of God and man.…It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Love is not everything, it is merely one piece among many pieces that go into a functional relationship. Trust, respect, an ability to compromise, and compatibility with respect to goals, family, and finances are all equally important. Love, without those other factors, is nothing worth hanging on to.— Scott Bradford
Hell is other people.— Jean-Paul Sartre
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.— Frank Zappa
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.— Thomas Edison
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.— Albert Einstein
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That’s relativity.— Albert Einstein
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.— David Brink
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.— Henry Drummond
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one’s own person is its ultimate reward.— Patricia Sampson
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.— Sir Winston Churchill
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.— Dwight Morrow
The best way to predict the future is to create it.— Peter Drucker
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.— William Faulkner
Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.— Ralph Charell
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.— Albert Einstein
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.— Samuel Johnson
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.— Mahatma Gandhi
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze new problems, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.— Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.— Oscar Wilde
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.— Bertrand Russell
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.— William M. Thackeray
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.— William Jennings Bryan
Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.— King Solomon, Proverbs 17:28 (RSV)
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.— Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.— Sally Koch
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.— Tom Clancy
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.— Mark Twain
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.— Samuel Johnson
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.— Ambrose Pierce
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it.— George Bernard Shaw
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.— Emile Zola
He is no fool that gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.— Jim Elliot
Imagination is more important than knowledge.— Albert Einstein
Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.— Elbert Hubbard
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.— President John F. Kennedy (D)
A liberal is a conservative who hasn’t been mugged yet.— Frank Rizzo
The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.— President Theodore Roosevelt (R)
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.— President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for ten or fifteen years.— President Harry S Truman (D)
If you think too much about being reelected, it is very difficult to be worth reelecting.— President Woodrow Wilson (D)
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.— Governor Adlai Stevenson (D-IL)
The wisest thing to do with a fool is encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow citizens. Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to air.— President Woodrow Wilson (D)
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.— Sec. of State Henrey Kissinger (R)
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.— Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.— President John F. Kennedy (D)
People who live their lives selfishly and at the detriment of others are often the ones who complain loudest about how badly they think they’ve been mistreated.— Scott Bradford
The United States has lasted well more than 200 years, but it is still young in the grand scheme of things. The apathy of the people can still be its downfall.— Scott Bradford
When I say ‘follow your heart,’ it’s actually shorthand for ‘follow your heart unless your brain makes a reasonable objection.’— Scott Bradford
Never expect the worst, but always be ready for it anyway.— Scott Bradford
It’s always good to break ice that you’re not standing on.— Scott Bradford
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws…[that] disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.— Cesare Beccaria, “On Crimes and Punishments”, 1764
If you want to build a ship, then don’t drum up men to gather wood, give orders, and divide the work. Rather, teach them to yearn for the far and the endless sea.— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along…. We have an obligation to call this what it is: the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.— President George W. Bush (R)
I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.— Mahatma Ghandhi
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.— Mark Twain
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.— Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting
It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.— Steve Jobs
Si vis pacem, para bellum.— (If you seek peace, prepare for war.)
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.— President Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.— Robert Hutchins
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.— Douglas Adams
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.— President Ronald Reagan (R)
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.— G. K. Chesterton
The real conflict is the inner conflict…. [T]here are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?— Saint Maximilian Kolbe
Today’s various forms of dissolution of marriage, free unions, trial marriages[, and] the pseudo-matrimonies between people of the same sex are…anarchic freedom which falsely tries to pass itself off as the true liberation of man.— Pope Benedict XVI
The freedom to kill is not true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces the human being to slavery.— Pope Benedict XVI
Having a computer doesn’t make you a hacker. Having a lighter doesn’t make you an arsonist. And having a gun doesn’t make you a killer.— Anonymous, The Chattanoogan, 7/7/2009
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.— Sir Winston Churchill
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane[,] and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.— Henry Louis Mencken
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.— Evelyn Beatrice Hall, The Friends of Voltaire
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.— Mark Twain
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.— Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.— Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.— Albert Einstein
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.— Joseph Dunninger
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it.— President Ronald Reagan (R)
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we’ve removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of people that these liberties are the gifts of God?— President Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.— Lucius Annaeus Seneca, (A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer’s hands.)
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.— Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.— Blessed Pope John Paul II
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.— Blessed Pope John Paul II
If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze!— Saint Catherine of Sienna
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.— Saint Teresa of Avila
Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.— Saint Gregory Nazianzen
Pray, hope, and don’t worry.— Saint Pio of Pietrelcino
Conscience has rights because it has duties.— Blessed John Henry Newman
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.— Jesus Christ, Matthew 22:37-40 (RSV)
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.— Mark Twain
You can’t get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That’s all you need to know about communism.— P. J. O’Rourke
Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.— P. J. O’Rourke
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.— Benjamin Franklin
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.— Benjamin Franklin
I’ve lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing Proofs I see of this Truth: That God governs in the Affairs of Men.— Benjamin Franklin
…in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.— Benjamin Franklin
If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?— Benjamin Franklin
Fight all error, but do it with good humor, patience, kindness, and love. Harshness will damage your own soul and spoil the best cause.— Saint John of Kanty
You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond.— “Yes, Virginia…” Editorial, The New York Sun, 1897
The universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe. Contemplating it, we are invited to read something profound into it: the wisdom of the creator, the inexhaustible creativity of God.— Pope Benedict XVI
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.— Saint Teresa of Avila
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.— Saint Francis de Sales
Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.— Saint Thomas Aquinas
Love the sinner and hate the sin.— Saint Augustine of Hippo
Therefore do not seek to understand in order to believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.— Saint Augustine of Hippo
So material a difference does it make, not what ills are suffered, but what kind of man suffers them. For, stirred up with the same movement, mud exhales a horrible stench, and ointment emits a fragrant odor.— Saint Augustine of Hippo
No one in the world can change truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it.— Saint Maximilian Kolbe
Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made.— Saint Peter of Alcantara
It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.— President George Washington
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.— President Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.— President Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.— President Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.— President Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.— President Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
It is not by the consolidation or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.— President Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
Virtue is not always amiable.— President John Adams (Federalist)
A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.— President James Madison (Democratic-Republican)
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this.— Sec. of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton (Federalist)
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.— Sec. of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton (Federalist)
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.— God, Genesis 3:19 (RSV)
But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?— Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.— Edmund Burke
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.— Edmund Burke
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.— Edmund Burke
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.— Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:3 (RSV)
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.— Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:4 (RSV)
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.— Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:5 (RSV)
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.— Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:6 (RSV)
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.— Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:7 (RSV)
Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.— Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:11-12 (RSV)
A nation which kills its own children is a nation without a future.— Blessed Pope John Paul II
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live, loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice, and cleaving to him…— Deuteronomy 30:19-20 (RSV)
Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.’— Servant of God Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.— Rita Mae Brown
Normal is the average of deviance.— Rita Mae Brown
Men despise religion; they hate it and fear it is true. To remedy this, we must begin by showing that religion is not contrary to reason; that it is venerable, to inspire respect for it; then we must make it lovable, to make good men hope it is true; finally, we must prove it is true.— Blaise Pascal
Let us see life as it really is…. It is a moment between two eternities.— Saint Therese of Lisieux
God has created me to do him some definite service…. I have a part in this great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught.— Blessed John Henry Newman
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.— Saint Teresa of Jesus
The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.— King Solomon, Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 (RSV)
I know that there is nothing better for [men] than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; also that it is God’s gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.— King Solomon, Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 (RSV)
Too many of us believe that the local police or our military…will always be there to protect us, and will always be on our side. Too many of us believe we will never need to act individually—violently, if necessary—to protect ourselves, our families, our liberty, our communities, or our country.— Scott Bradford
You cannot please both God and the world at the same time, they are utterly opposed to each other in their thoughts, their desires, and their actions.— Saint John Vianney
Oh, how precious time is! Blessed are those who know how to make good use of it. Oh, if only all could understand how precious time is, undoubtedly everyone would do his best to spend it in a praiseworthy manner!— Saint Pio of Pietrelcina
Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.— King Solomon, Proverbs 9:8 (RSV)
We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation—to make a point—than to further the cause of truth. The latter end is only pursued when it seems coincident with the former.— Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Roget
Now, the psychological discovery is merely this, that whereas it had been supposed that the fullest possible enjoyment is to be found by extending our ego to infinity, the truth is that the fullest possible enjoyment is to be found by reducing our ego to zero.— G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverent realism, says that they are all fools. This doctrine is sometimes called the doctrine of original sin. It may also be described as the doctrine of the equality of men.— G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
But if there really be anything of the nature of progress, it must mean, above all things, the careful study and assumption of the whole of the past.— G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
But if we do revive and pursue the pagan ideal of a simple and rational self-completion we shall end where Paganism ended. I do not mean that we shall end in destruction. I mean that we shall end in Christianity.— G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
Being full of that kindliness which should come at the end of everything, even of a book, I apologize to the rationalists even for calling them rationalists. There are no rationalists. We all believe fairy-tales, and live in them.— G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.— Saint Paul, Romans 12:21 (RSV)
For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another.— Saint Paul, Galatians 5:13 (RSV)
You ask me for a method of obtaining perfection. I know of Love and Love only! Our hearts are made for this alone.— Saint Therese of Lisieux, The Story of a Soul
If God exists, then He must be outside the natural world, and therefore the tools of science are not the right ones to learn about Him. Instead…the evidence of God’s existence would have to come from other directions, and the ultimate decision would be based on faith, not proof.— Francis S. Collins, The Language of God
But do we not sometimes hear the thief contend that he is not guilty of sin, because he steals from the rich and the wealthy, who, in his mind, not only suffer no injury, but do not even feel the loss? Such an excuse is as wretched as it is baneful.— The Catholic Church, The Catechism of the Council of Trent
You have heard that it was said, `You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.— Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:43-45 (RSV)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.— George Santayana
Each person matters; no human life is redundant.— Basil Hume
Christianity doesn’t begin by telling people what they must do, but what God has done for them. Gift comes before duty.— Father Raneiro Cantalamessa
There’s no device known to mankind that will prevent people from being idiots.— Mark Rasch
The Church does not derive from human will, from reflection, from man’s ability and organizational capacity…if that were so it would have become extinct a long time ago, like all human things.— Pope Benedict XVI
America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force…. The higher state to which she seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.— President Calvin Coolidge (R), 1925 Inaugural Address
Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.— Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
For the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.— William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England
The more project management you do the less likely your project is to succeed.— Douglas Merrill, Google
Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.— G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
In truth, the idea that there is a fundamental right to life is a liberal idea…. It is an idea that compassionately sees humanity in people who might seem un-human. It is an idea that won’t let you forget or ignore somebody just because they are hidden from view, or imperfect.— Scott Bradford
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.— Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Those who don’t love you will tell you what you want to hear; those who love you will lead you to the truth.— Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.— Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.— Saint Francis of Assisi
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.— Abba Eban
There can never be a contradiction between faith and science because both originate in God. It is God who gives us both the light of reason and of faith.— Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.— Tom Peters
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.— John Maynard Keynes
Art is not freedom from discipline, but a disciplined freedom.— Father Edward Catich
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, not even if your whole world seems upset. If you find that you have wandered away from the shelter of God, lead your heart back to Him quietly and simply.— Saint Francis de Sales
When circumstances change, I change my opinion.— John Maynard Keynes
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.— Ayn Rand
If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.— President Theodore Roosevelt (R)
[My father] gave me a piece of advice that I have always remembered, namely, that, if I was not going to earn money, I must even things up by not spending it. As he expressed it, I had to keep the fraction constant, and if I was not able to increase the numerator, then I must reduce the denominator.— President Theodore Roosevelt (R)
Pay no heed, then, to anyone who tries to frighten you or depicts to you the perils of the way. What a strange idea that one could ever expect to travel on a road infested by thieves, for the purpose of gaining some great treasure, without running into danger!— Saint Teresa of Avila
…perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them.— Saint Teresa of Avila
Better a thousand times err on the side of over-readiness to fight, than to err on the side of tame submission to injury, or cold-blooded indifference to the misery of the oppressed.— President Theodore Roosevelt (R)
It is through strife, or the readiness for strife, that a nation must win greatness.— President Theodore Roosevelt (R)
We are not making a revolution, we are merely recognizing and giving shape to an evolution.— President Theodore Roosevelt (R)
If he asks for money, he is a false prophet.— Early Church Fathers, The Didache (ca. 100AD)
And every prophet who teaches the truth, but does not do what he teaches, is a false prophet.— Early Church Fathers, The Didache (ca. 100AD)
If he who comes is a wayfarer, assist him as far as you are able…. But if he has no trade, according to your understanding, see to it that, as a Christian, he shall not live with you idle. But if he wills not to do, he is a Christ-monger. Watch that you keep away from such.— Early Church Fathers, The Didache (ca. 100AD)
Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That’s had a big impact on my work.— Steve Jobs
Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. That’s true for companies, and it’s true for products.— Steve Jobs
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune…. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.— President Grover Cleveland (D)
The most neglected fact in business is that we’re all human.— Chip Conley
The feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.— Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (United Kingdom)
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.— Servant of God Fulton J. Sheen
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.— Chuck Swindoll
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.— Alvin Toffle
I can’t help but laugh when I am condemned for believing in Heaven, Hell, and an invisible God by people who believe in invisible matter and hidden dimensions. We’re saying almost the same thing…. If we could stop getting distracted by our different phraseology, we’d find that we’re basically on the same page.— Scott Bradford
If you’re not catching flak, you’re not over the target.— Unknown
…whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence.— John Locke, Second Treatise on Government
It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.— Voltaire
An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.— Carl Sagan
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.— Carl Sagan
