some quotes that have accumulated over the years...
-Joseph Conrad said, "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."

-Faulkner once said, "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

-Samuel Johnson wrote, "Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."

-French poet Jacques Rigaut said, "Don't forget that I cannot see myself. My role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror."

-Euripides said, "When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."

-Nietzsche wrote, "The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

-Shakespeare wrote, "Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable."

-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

-Hemingway wrote, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else.”

-Robert Oxton Bolt once wrote, "A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind."

-Eugene Ionesco said, "Ideology separates us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."

-Harriet Beecher Stowe once said "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

-"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done," Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

-Confucius once said, "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

-Albert Pine said, "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."

-Sir Francis Bacon said, "In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

-Nietzsche wrote, "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."

-Gandhi said, "Better to be violent if there's violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence."

-Gandhi also said, "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent."

-Anthony Brandt wrote, "Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."

-The author François de la Rochefoucauld wrote, "We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
-The French philosopher Voltaire wrote, "There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts."

-Albert Einstein said, "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

-George Orwell said, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

-Writer Elbert Hubbard said, "No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."

-"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." French writer François de la Rochefoucauld.

-"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone." Rose Kennedy.

-Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer said "The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."

-Mark Twain wrote "Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

-"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth," Oscar Wilde

-Plato wrote "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

-Aristotle said, "Evil brings men together."

-There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins. Ecclesiastes 7:20

-"From the deepest desires often comes the deadliest hate." Socrates

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

-"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul," John Calvin.

-Gandhi said "Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever."

-An old Russian proverb reminds us, "There can be no good without evil."

-The British historian James Anthony Froude once said, "Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself."

-"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world— not even our troubles," Charles Chaplin.

-"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." Herman Melville.

-The Taoist philosopher Lao-tze once wrote, "he who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."

-Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

-Dostoyevsky once said, “Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him.”

-G.K. Chesterton wrote: "Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed."

-“Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters.” - Francisco Goya

-William Shakespeare wrote, love all, trust a few, do wrong by none.

-Mentality is relative. Perhaps the insane have merely achieved a level of clarity no one else has.

-Edgar Allen Poe said "Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of reality"

-"To be nobody but yourself in a world th's doing it's best to make you somebody else is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting" - E.E Cummings