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There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
           Robert A. Heinlein


How beautiful, if sorrow had not made
Sorrow more Beautiful than Beauty’s self.
           John Keats - Hyperion Bk 1, l, 35


Fortune is a boat on a stormy sea, which rises and falls with each mountainous wave.


A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies but once.


Preparedness is the father of courage.


If one is honest there is no need to remember.
            Mark Twain

You shall have joy or you shall have power.
You cannot have both.
 

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
 

Nature gives neither rewards nor punishment - just consequences.
 

The louder a man tells you he’s honest, the harder you must hold onto your possessions.
 

Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades.
 

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
 

Take what you have, rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses too long.
 

The strongest grief can be eased by time until the past seems little more than a dream.
 

The exercise of logic demands that we accept the inevitable.
 

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
 

New knowledge always leads to yet more awesome discoveries.
 

Guilt and secrets, like murdered bones, never rest easy; but the knowledge of all three can be lived with.
 

Worry is like a rocking chair; it will give you something to do but it won’t get you anywhere.
 

There is no try; only do and do not.
 

Take pride in today’s accomplishments, for they lead to tomorrow’s success.
 

Those who are unable to cease action as well as initiate it will long endure. All others are doomed to die young.
 

Silence is a voice heard somewhere,
interpreted by someone.
 

Never let yourself feel regret; only grief lies that way.
 

Education is what you have left after everything you have learned is forgotten.
 

Is it truly heartless to enjoy today when no man knows what evil the morrow will bring him?
 

Plans are like figures drawn in sand; easily made and just as easily disturbed.
 

Nothing that’s really worthwhile should be easy. If it’s easy we don’t value it as much.
 

The force that affects our lives, the influences that mould and shape us, are often like whispers in a distant room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.
 

In the vastness of the ocean, a drop of water is no greater than the other and neither has a single drop the ability to cause a tidal wave. But if a single drop falls into
the ocean, it creates ripples. And these ripples may grow and swell and eventually break foaming upon the shore.
 

Peace will be established only after a conflict is completed.
 

The future is a fabric of interlacing possibilities. Some of which gradually become probabilities, and a few of which become inevitabilities, but there are surprises sewn into the warp and woof, which can tear it apart.
 

Without struggle there is no progress
 

Sometimes we must unlearn in order to learn
 

Change is a fact of life, it is a process brought about by the efforts of men and women dissatisfied with the status quo, and it is essentially a good thing.
 

Change is frequently the result of what we have learned, not simple what we have envisioned. History plays a part in change. Therefore, what once was and was good ought not to be cast aside as being simply wishful reminiscence.
 

When ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise.
 

Your success is measured in how many steps you take toward the future.
 

If you open the wrong doors, you can always decide to close them.
 

No matter what happens today, you can always do things different tomorrow.
 

Accept what is true, reject what is past.
 

The tales were told by the men who hung the heroes.
 

What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it
 

The more you know, the more you worry about what you stand to lose.
 

Confidence is what you have before you know better.
 

Stories of the past can be used as building blocks for the future.
 

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
 

Genius has limits, stupidity does not.
 

Begin with the end in mind.
 

Man can plan, but only fate can complete.
 

Do not be afraid of moving slowly, but of standing still.
 

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
 

If you cannot teach, you cannot learn. If you cannot learn you have nothing to offer to anyone.
 

Better to remain silent and appear stupid than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.
 

Many people walk with a limp. But it is better than not walking at all.
 

Thought is father to the deed.
 

May bad fortune follow you all of your days, and never catch up with you.
 

Gratitude is an ill-fitted sweater that can chafe and smell if worn too long.
 

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
 

There are lies, and then there are bandages for the soul.
 

He who increases knowledge, increases sorrow.
 

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
 

Better to see the hole that lies in the path ahead and walk around it, than to fall into it blindly.
 

One’s ill fortune can be another’s good luck.
 

There’s a time for some things,
A time for all things.
A time for great things,
And a time for small things.
 

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
 

It may not be your fault that you got knocked down, but you must find the courage to get back up again.
 

The light that burns twice as bright lasts only half as long.
 

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
 

Today’s word is tomorrow’s deed.
 

The facts should never interfere with the truth.
 

May the best of your past be the worst of your future.
 

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of dawn.
            H.G. Wells
 

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.
 

All things being equal; we must go with the simplest reason.
            Azrim's Razor
 

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
 

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
            Ziggy
 

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
            Confucius
 

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost.
            J. R. R. Tolkien
 

I am not the potter, not the potter’s wheel, but the potter’s clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependant upon the intrinsic worth of the clay as upon the wheel and the master’s skill?
            Stephen King
 

Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps.
            Lloyd George
 

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
            Plato
 

Age is not indicative of wisdom.
 

Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose garden.
 

If you only have a hammer in your tool box, every problem will be a nail.
 

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
            Sir Winston Churchill
 

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
            John Ciardi
 

When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
            Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things that are already in the mind.
            Alphonse Bertillon
 

We cannot hope to gain that in which we do not believe.
 

Superstition does not permit the mind to question; the meaning of it's rituals and symbols are deliberately obscured. Whereas belief requires the mind to explain the heart.
 

The truth of a situation most often turns out to be that one with the simplest explanation.
 

An eye for an eye ends up making the whole world blind.
            Mahatma Ghandi