Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
I never told my religion, nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged others' religions by their lives, for it is from our lives and not our words that our religions must be read.
Thomas Jefferson
True religion is the life we live, not the creed we profess.
J.F. Wright
Treat the other mans faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
Henry S. Haskins
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Shakespeare
The Church says the earth is flat, But I know it is round. For I have seen it's shadow on the moon. and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.
Ferdiann Magellan
Love, and do what you like.
Saint Augustine
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Denis Waitley
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Paul Boese
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Sir Francis Bacon
I am a Bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
Winnie the Pooh
They first came for the communist's, and I didn't speak up,
... because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up,
... because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Trade Unions, and I didn't speak up,
... because I was not in a union.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up,
... because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time
... no one was left to speak up.
Pastor Martin Niemoeller (Nazi victim)
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Henley, in Invictus
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.
Galileo Galilei
In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man: Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds; however, the timid join him. For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.
Mark Twain
The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Samuel Adams
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Robert H. Parker
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents,and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
Arabic Proverb
When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
Cherokee Proverb
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Chinese Proverb
Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.
Chinese Proverb
