It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

- Andr Gide

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

- Andr Gide

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

- Hubert Humphrey

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

- Anais Nin

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

- Anais Nin

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

- John Powell