"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"Fret not when the twilight comes a knocking in your life;
I was, I am, & I will be with you till dawn emerges bright !!"

-- Behrooz K Y Avari

"It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul."
(last stanza of poem Invictus)

-- William Ernest Henley (English poet, critic, and editor, 23 August 1849 -- 11 July 1903)

"Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

-- Richard Bach (American writer b. 1936)

"A woman should, I think, love her husband better than anything on
earth except her own soul, which I think a man should respect above
everything on earth but his own soul; and there my dear is a very
pretty puzzle for you, which a good many people have failed to solve."

-- Fanny Kemble (British actress and author 1809 - 1893)

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

--Leonardo da Vinci (Italian genius 1452 - 1519)

"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will."

-- Nelson Mandela