Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. – Dag Hammarskjold

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. – Harry S. Truman

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. – Sallust

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. – Oscar Wilde

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. – Eleanor Roosevelt

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. – Sir Francis Bacon

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself. – Joseph Farrell

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away […]

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. – Thomas Paine