If you wish in this world to advance your merits youre bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you havent a chance. – William Gilbert
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. – Baruch Spinoza
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. Youre in a conversation and everybodys agreeing with what youre saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you dont want to hear. – Al Pacino
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance. – John F. Schumaker, Corruption of Reality, Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis a
