Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. TweetShareSharePin ~ Al BoliskaTweetShareSharePin
Have not prisons – which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe – always been universities of crime? ~ Peter KropotkinTweetShareSharePin
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, ‘there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.’ A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. ~ Tom BlairTweetShareSharePin
what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. ~ Matthew ArnoldTweetShareSharePin
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through. ~ Jim RohnTweetShareSharePin
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ~ Clive Staples LewisTweetShareSharePin
We are what we think; as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn. ~ J. Todd FerrierTweetShareSharePin