"I never considered a difference of opinion in, politics, religion, or philosophy, as a cause for withdrawing from a freind." -Thomas Jefferson

"Peoples opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth for most people is a secondary consideration."-Bertrand Russel

"We suffer more from imagination than from reality"-Seneca

"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy." - Saadi Shirazi

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not." - Epicurus

"Educate the young and it wont be necessary to punish the men." -Pythagoras

"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power." -Rene Decartes

"Everything we here is an opinion, not fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." -Marcus Arelius

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."-Ernest Hemingway

" To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead."-Miyamata Musashi

"Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: some things are within you control and some things are not." - Epictetus