Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. - Stephen Vizinczey

There may not always be a way where there's a will, but on the other hand - if success isn't certain, neither is failure.

The world is full of people whom no one has put in chains but who bind themselves with frozen thoughts and fears. A man whose mind conforms to the conditioned responses of his daily life is a coward and a slave.

Cultural History suggests that men have always had a greater inclination to close their eyes than to open them, to believe comforting lies rather than disconcerting truths.