Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. - Helen Keller

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette

It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way. – Edith Wharton

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

On March 1st, 2006, in Annapolis, MD, Jamie Raskin, Professor of Law at American University, testified at a hearing on a proposed Constitutional Amendment to prohibit gay marriage. At the end of his testimony, Republican Senator Nancy Jacobs said: "Mr. Raskin, my Bible says marriage is only between a man and a woman. What do you have to say about that?" Raskin replied: "Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. - Teddy Roosevelt

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. - Dorothy Parker