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Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. Henry Adams
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. William Penn
The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom. Theodore Roosevelt
Though she be but little, she is fierce! William Shakespeare
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. Albert Einstein
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. Sallust
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David Thoreau
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. Emily Dickinson
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. William James
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. Charles Dickens
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. Sigmund Freud
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true. Friedrich Nietzsche
Cats have an uncanny ability to make us feel loved and cherished.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. Oscar Wilde
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak. François Fénelon
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh. Victor Hugo
Honor has not to be won it must only not be lost. Arthur Schopenhauer
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class. Annie Besant
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future. William Wordsworth
A friend is someone who sees your flaws but loves you fiercely anyway.
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. Charles Dickens
There are no second acts in American lives. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. Henry David Thoreau
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! Oscar Wilde
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. Nikola Tesla
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. Simone Weil
Truth is the daughter of time. Aulus Gellius
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. Jean de La Fontaine
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. Friedrich Nietzsche
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes. Gustav Mahler
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions. Swami Vivekananda
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To contemplate is to look at shadows. Victor Hugo
We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow. Theodor Herzl
Change your habits, change your life. Small steps can lead to big transformations.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche

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