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| We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when adults are afraid of the light.
 - Plato (427-347 B.C.) |
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| I'm going to turn on the light, and we'll be two people in a room looking at each other and wondering why on earth we were afraid of the dark.
- Gale Wilhelm |
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| Come to the edge, He said. They said: we are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them, and they flew...
- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) |
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| The high-minded man must care more for what's right than for what people think.
- Aristotle (384-22 B.C.) |
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| The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
- Sir William Osler (1849-1919) |
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| Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
- G.C. Lichtenberg (1742-99) |
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| A great-souled hero must transcend the slavish thinking of those around him.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
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| Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, stop every motor and halt all activity for an hour some day to give people a chance to ponder for a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living and what they really want.
- James Truslow Adams (1878-1949) |
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| Being extremely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
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| Why not spend some time in determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that?
- William Ross |
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