“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
– Jack Canfield

“Race has no place in American life or law.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as they chose. . . Man does not live by bread alone. Those in the United States whose desire to create a strictly secular society is as strong as Lenin’s was should study this Cold War lesson closely. Communism was defeated by an alliance spearheaded by ‘one nation under God.'”
– Richard M. Nixon

“With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.”
– Richard M. Nixon

“If people in the South insisted on living by crazy rules, then I would play the hand dealt me for now. If I was going to be confined to one end of the playing field, then I was going to be a star on that part of the field. I was not going to let myself become emotionally crippled because I could not play on the whole field. I was not going to allow someone else’s feelings about me to become my feelings about myself. I occasionally felt hurt; I felt anger; but most of all I felt challenged. I’ll show you!”
– Colin Powell from “My American Dream” on racism.

“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Enlighten and strengthen my will, God, so that by freely choosing to walk in Your way I can make this a better world.”
– Unknown

“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built an ark. Professionals built the Titanic.”
– Unknown

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
– The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

“Limits, like fear, are often an illusion.”
– Michael Jordan

“The only important decision we have to make is to live with God; He will make all the rest.”
– Psalm 84:11

“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.”
– W. Feather

“The basis of our Bill of Rights comes form the teachings we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don’t think we emphasize that enough these days. If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with… a government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State!”
– Harry Truman

“But for [the Bible] we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man’s welfare… are to be found portrayed in it.”
– James Garfield

“Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.”
– Henry Ford

“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.”
– Henry Ford

“It doesn’t matter how often you get knocked down; what matters is how often you get back up.”
– Vince Lombardi

“You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding.”
– Cheryl Strayed

“Finish everyday and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a sprit to be encumbered with your old nonsense”.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is the things we think we know — because they are so elementary or because they surround us — that often present the greatest difficulties when we are actually challenged to explain them.”
– Stephen Jay Gould

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“A liberal is one who says that it’s all right for an eighteen year-old girl to perform in a pornographic movie as long as she gets paid the minimum wage.”
– Irving Kristol, “Two Cheers for Capitalism”

“…under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution’s focus upon the individual… To pursue the concept of racial entitlement — even for the most admirable and benign of purposes — is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American.”
– Justice Antonin Scalia in his concurring opinion on Adarand v. Pena

“I sacrificed no principle to gain this office and I shall sacrifice no principle to keep it.”
– Unknown: from a plaque that hung in Gerald Mann’s (Former TX Atty. General) office in the late 1930’s.

“Why do English Literature specialists try to analyze every written work? I wish they could accept the fact that imagination doesn’t always have meaning.”
– Unknown

“You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them, then to the work and take the risks.”
– Unknown

“You fail 100% of the times you never tried.”
– Unknown

“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. ”
– Wilhelm Von Humbolt

“Character is so largely affected by associations that we cannot afford to be indifferent as to who and what our friends are.”
– M. Hulburd

“The most wasted of all our days are those in which we have not laughed.”
– Sebastian Chamfort

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.”
– Julian Simon

“My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.”
– Lee Iacocca

“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. How you lived. How you loved.”
– Eve Branson

Darkness cloaks the earth
and she once again fades from view.
I drown these empty hours without her in sleep.
I long for the first rays of sunlight
to reveal her to me.
The fresh, virgin morning moves me from my
solitary slumber
and I detect her presence.
My eyes cannot adjust quickly enough
for I crave her incessantly.
Her beauty, inviting and wild drives my spirit
and embraces my very soul.
Her daily rendezvous invites feelings
of such splendid security.
For she is part of me
and I of her.
My undying love for her grows daily,
as does my respect.
For with each day I find something succinctly new
within her that touches me — Gifts from God.
I therefore willingly surrender my consciousness
to discovering and savoring her miraculous
complexities.
– Richard Driver, “Love Poem”