I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. — Linda Ellerbee

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. … Continue reading →

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. — Victor Hugo

I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you. — Robin Williams

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. — Leonardo da Vinci

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. — Ayn Rand

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. — Dr. Seuss

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ― Aristotle

Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. — Ayn Rand

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason. — Ayn Rand

The natural desire of good men is knowledge. — Leonardo da Vinci

“From the day we begin caring for the children in our lives, we are preparing them to leave. It’s the most difficult thing to face– a grand abandonment of our own devising.”  — Suzie Bright