“In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.”
"Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do right now, and do it. Today is your lucky day."
- Will Durant
Resilience
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
- Will Durant
Wisdom
"The family is the nucleus of civilization."
- Will Durant
Family
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
- Will Durant
Achievement
"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."
- Will Durant
Knowledge
"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."
- Archer
Philosophy
"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."
- Paine
Philosophy
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."
- Eric Sevareid
Philosophy
"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Philosophy
"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."
- G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy