Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

I know you're there. I can detect your presence each time it closes in on mine.

You know the life you have committed yourself to often ends in death.All life does.pg 217

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

You see, Firestar? I am even more powerful than Starclan, for I have changed the clans in the forest from four to two..."-The Darkest Hour, Page 227

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

What I did was permitted. My emails went to state.gov accounts. I did what I did, and I've said that it was a mistake. I've tried to do the best I could to get that information out to people.

Do you believe in reincarnation?...I was wondering why some connections seem so easy, so natural, as if they'd already been made and are getting picked up again.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.