The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.   — Ayn Rand, author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged  

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.       (economist Milton Friedman)

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. –Mark Twain

Scarcely ten years ago, all hope of flying had almost been abandoned; even the most convinced had become doubtful, and I confess that, in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that men would not fly for fifty years. Two … Continue reading →

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the … Continue reading →

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. — Buddha

“All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.” — James Fenimore Cooper

Sick of the 2016 election for U.S. President already? Check out the words and ideas of America’s founders — in this case, James Madison. Nobody today has a clue, but these men understood more than most of us now realize. … Continue reading →

…After all these efforts one finally achieves certainty, one feels one of the deepest joys it is given to the human soul to experience. — Louis Pasteur, scientist and researcher

Each of the following quotes are from American revolutionary Thomas Paine, writing in “The American Crisis” and “Rights of Man.”   Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights … Continue reading →

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. — Arthur Rubinstein

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. — Andrew Carnegie