“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Appeasement is throwing someone else to the crocodiles in the hopes of being eaten last.”

Winston Churchill

Any life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself.

Kenneth S. Davis

“Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can’t practice any other virtue with consistency.”

Maya Angelou

“Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world—making the most of one’s best.”

Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.”

Gerald Brenan

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”

Robert Frost

“The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.”

Marge Piercy

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”

Soren Kierkegaard

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.”

“Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.”

Flannery O’Connor