"The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself." -Thomas Carlyle

"Nothing is so irrevocable as mind." -George Santayan

"The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear." -Socrates
"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle." -George William Curtis
"Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow." -Abraham Lincoln
"What you declare, you will achieve " -Unknown
"To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue." -William Hazlitt

"Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love." -Marc Chagall

"Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts." -Margaret Lee Runbeck
"Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does" -Evan Esar