Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch) Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else...

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life....

No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ~G.K. Chesterton The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to...

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927 Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. ~Sophia Loren It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew...

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ~Eric Hoffer The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. ~Sigmund Freud All sorts of bodily diseases are produced...

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. ~H.F. Hedge Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask. ~X-Files...

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ~Sally Field Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. ~Author Unknown Our...

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart. ~Francesco Guicciardini Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it....

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Anderson When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything...

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let...