Interesting Quotes

I figured it was time to throw something up here, so I'm going to start a list of quotes that I find inspirational, profound, or just outright cool.  Please feel free to send me an email with your own suggestions to add!

Quote Author Date Added
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller 8/18/2002
Let no one be discouraged by the belief that there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence.

Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts will be written the history of a generation.

Robert Francis Kennedy 6/9/2002
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.  Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent.  Calvin Coolidge 6/9/2002
Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it. Steven V. Thulon 6/9/2002
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. Elbert Hubbard 6/9/2002
Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great. Mark Twain 6/9/2002
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon 6/9/2002
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus 7/28/2002