The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice., George Eliot, English novelist (1819 1880)
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them., Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions, US novelist (1922 )
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself., Liberace, US pianist (1919 1987)
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death., James F. Byrnes, US jurist politician (1879 1972)
An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled., Saint Jerome, Letter, church father saint (374 AD 419 AD)
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing., Aesop, The Goose with the Golden Eggs, Greek slave fable author (620 BC 560 BC)