We Restore Hope -

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. ~Les Brown

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Mohandas Gandhi

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. ~Joan Didion

“Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.”

-Anon.

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ~Jane Wagner

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ~Samuel Ullman

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ~Josh Billings

Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. ~James McNeill Whistler, Whistler Versus Ruskin, 1878

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. ~John Updike

You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way. ~Marvin Minsky