Favorite saying

• ""Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor and it can never be used to hurt you." --Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones "A scholar is always made alone, and sober. Studies can be pursued to good purpose only by yourself." --John Adams "I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern." --Thomas Jefferson "The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." --Abraham Lincoln "I stood by Grant when he was drunk and he stood by me when I was crazy, and now we stand by each other always." --General William Tecumseh Sherman "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling that thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -- John Stuart Mill “The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence. From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependence back into bondage.” –Alexander Tyler "Nature is merciful and does not try her children, man or beast, beyond their compass. It is only when the cruelty of man intervenes that hellish torments appear. For the rest, live dangerously, take things as they come. Fear naught, all will be well." --Winston Churchill"