War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
– Thomas Mann

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
– Calvin Coolidge

Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul.
– Walt Whitman

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
– Omar Bradley

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
– Oscar Wilde