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With all due respect, I am against dumb. - John Kennedy

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

Ronald Reagan

Jealousy... is a mental cancer. - B. C. Forbes

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

Albert Einstein

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” – Oscar Wilde

What we do not know, we often fear. What we do not understand, we fear. And what we fear becomes a threat. – Malcolm Fraser

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.

Wes Fesler

No legacy is so rich as honesty. - William Shakespeare

"You can't hurt me." "You're not the first to say that…and you won't be the last."

"Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life." Nelson Mandela

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. - M. Scott Peck

“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality." - The Cheshire Cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."

“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” — Pablo Casals

The declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen. – Timothy Leary

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world." – Albert Einstein

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

"America without her soldiers would be like God without His angels," - Claudia Pemberton

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times," Southern Living says

"We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally."

Dalai Lama

People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.

“You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.”
― Roy T. Bennett

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. - Pearl S. Buck

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

Depression is the inability to construct a future. - Rollo May

"The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it." - Thomas S. Monson

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. - Thomas Mann

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes. - Harry Houdini

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini. - P. G. Wodehouse

“It's not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It's that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where everyday are your Saturdays and Sundays. Make everyday your weekend. Make everyday a play-day…”
― James A. Murphy

Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn. - John Wesley

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

Alan Alda

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. - William Makepeace Thackeray

"Your birthday is the beginning of your own personal new year. Your first birthday was a beginning, and each new birthday is a chance to begin again, to start over, to take a new grip on life." — Wilferd Peterson

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” — Charles Darwin

“In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can stretch right up and touch the sky.” — Mungo Jerry

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. - John Maynard Keynes

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“By becoming deeply aware of our mortality, we intensify our experience of every aspect of life” – Robert Greene

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception. - Charles Dudley Warner

Thats the spirit-one part brave,three parts fool.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!”
― C. JoyBell C.

"Love is a better teacher than duty." - Albert Einstein

“There comes a point where a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his conscience.”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change. - Aaron Sorkin

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; / If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!"
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Catholic Tales and Christian Songs

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. - James M. Barrie

Never laugh at live dragons." - J.R.R. Tolkien

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. Seneca

“A dragon's heart burns fiercely, even in the face of evil.”
― S.G. Rogers, Jon Hansen and the Dragon Clan of Yden

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford

“Thats the spirit-one part brave,three parts fool.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”
― Sally Rooney