"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” - Paul Valery In every life we have some trouble, but when we worry we make it double - Bob Marley "The imagination is not a state: it is human existence itself." -William Blake

"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves." -Sophocles

"Your character is your fate" ~ Sophocles 495 B.C.

"The first principle holds that you must not fool yourself - and you exist as the easiest person to fool."Richard Feynman

At the moment of commitment, the Universe conspires to assist you~Goethe

Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security

All governments suffer a recurring problem. Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.                                                                                                       - Frank Herbert