Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. Wilson Mizner US screenwriter (1876 - 1933) Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964 US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went. Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist (1867 - 1934) Civility costs nothing and buys everything. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu English letter author & poet (1689 - 1762) To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. Confucius Analects Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. Thomas Browne Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora" US short story author, editor, & poet (1809 - 1849) Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. Woody Allen US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - ) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) |