We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. Susan Jeffers

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. Henry James

Never take counsel of your fears. General Thomas Jonathon Stonewall Jackson

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop,...

Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible. Al Jaffee

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesse Louis Jackson

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice...

America is not like a blanket — one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same...

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...

Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of...