Patriotism2 is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power. Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852), Speech in the Senate...

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience1 breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outloo...

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression1...

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. Alice Walker (1944 - ), O Magazine, May 2003 The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergast...

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devils Dictionary A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. Edmon...

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. Colin Powell (1937 - ) The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum1. Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939) The optimist2 proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the...

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881) Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. Bulgarian Proverb Small opportunit...

When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably1 fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will b...

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble1 civilization and therefore imminent2 downfall. Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959) It is nobler to declare oneself wr...

Not even the gods fight against necessity. Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC), from Plato, Dialogues, Protagoras Necessity has no law. William Langland (1332 - 1400) Necessity is the plea for every infringement1 of human freedom. It is the argumen...