Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience. – Henri Frederic Amiel
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under Gods heaven. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. Its time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is. – Mitt Romney