It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

You can win a million battles but you can only lose one. R. A. Salvatore, Homeland

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another,...

No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains. Jon Krakauer,...

We never learn to pray, really pray- until we are in a situatioin where there is nothing left to do but pray. Victoria Damon

Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it. Robert Englund

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds,...

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. William Henry Hudson, Afoot in England, 1909