"No path of flowers leads to glory." -Jean de La Fontaine
"Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself." -Sir John Vanbrugh
"Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments." -Henry Ward Beecher
"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." -Samuel Johnson
"The lives and happiness of our children, as far ahead as the mind can record that this was indeed man's finest hour." -Carl A. Berendsen
"Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value." -Bertrand Russell
"In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith." -James William Fulbright
"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." -Lenin
"Prejudices have their important uses, but it is well to try not to mix them up with principles." -Nicholas Murray Butler