On the difference between failure & success:
"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."
- Francis Bacon
 

"There is a world of difference between "I have failed 3 times" and "I am a failure". Success and failure can only describe the situation at a particular time and place."
- Hayakawa
 

"Failure is not falling down but staying down."
- Mary Pickford
 

"Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is."
- Walter Wriston
 

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
- Emerson
 

"I would rather die a thousand deaths than renounce my faith."
- Lorenzo Ruiz ;  Filipino martyr,   Bessed & slated for sainthood
 

"Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death."
- Megiddo Message
 

"For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary;  for those who must doubt, no miracle is sufficient."
- Nancy Gibbs
 

"What leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to duty, in a cause he little understands, in a place of campaign he has no notion? Faith that is true and adorable!"
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
 

"For those who believe in God, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not no explanation is possible."
- quoted
 

"The people who proclaim the gospel best are those who do so with their lives, not with their tongues."
- quoted
 

"I believe in the sun, even when it does not shine; I believe in love, even when it is not shown; I believe in God, even when He does not speak."
 - Robert Schuller  in "The Hour of Power"

 
"Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe."
- St. Augustine
 
 

"Fear is the lengthen shadow of  ignorance."
- Arnold Glasgow
 

"He who rides the tiger fears to dismount."
- Chinese Proverb
 

"He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of  learning."
- Danish Proverb

 
"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
 - E. W. Howe
 
 

"All that glitters is not gold and all that is gold does not glitter - not all those who wander are lost."
- J.R.R. Tolkein
 
 
"It may take a year for a man to travel around the world without any lasting impression on him. It may take him only a second to see the face of a woman - and that second may change his entire future."
- James K. Fiebleman
 
 

"You are not a fool just because you have done something foolish - only if the folly of it escapes you."
- Jim Fieling
 
 

 
"Just as you need to be forgiven, others feel the need to forgive."
 - David Maller from the  book "Gift of Love"
 
 

"All people are sinners, but all can be redeemed."
- U.S. Pres. Jimmy Carter on his personal intervention in the crises of North Korea, Iraq & Haiti
 
 

"Two freedoms: the false, where one is free to do what he likes; and the true, where he is free to do what he ought to do."
- A.J. Cronin
 
 
 On freedom of the press:
"In a democratic country, there is no such thing as freedom from the press."
- Martina Navratilova ;
Tennis Champion

"But in an autocratic country, there is still no such thing as freedom of the press."
- AGP
 
 
 On the decline of Athens and the loss of freedom
 "When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."
 - Edith Hamilton
 
 
 "Without will and freedom, there can be no virtue and vice, and without virtue and vice, there can be no heroes and villains."
 - Gertrude Himmelfasb ; Historian
 
 
 "Freedom is so elusive it has to be conquered anew every passing day."
 - Goethe

 
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
- Thomas Jefferson
 

On being single:
 "The truly free man is he who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse."
 - Jules Renard
 
 
 "The principle of free thought - not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."
- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

 
"Freedom means freedom for the thought that we hate."
- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
 
 
"No one can ever be free who calmly looks on at another in captivity."
 - Lech Walesa

 
"No amount of political freedom will satisfy the masses."
 - Lenin
 

"Freedom regained after having been suppressed bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered."
 - Marcus Tullius Cicero
 
 
 On freedom from the press:
 "No one realizes the importance of freedom more than the artist, for only in the atmosphere of freedom can the artist flourish. In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations. Where there's liberty, art succeeds."
 - Pres. Ronald Reagan
 

The Four Freedoms:
 1 - Freedom of speech and expression
 2 - Freedom of worship
 3 - Freedom from want
 4 - Freedom from fear
 - President F. D. Roosevelt in a speech to Congress, Jan. 6, 1941

 
"The real value of freedom is not to the minority that wants to talk but to the majority that does not want to listen."
 - quoted

 
"What's the use of independence if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?"
- Jose Rizal ; Philippine National Hero
 
 
"Unless you deny yourself, you cannot have perfect liberty."
 - Thomas A. Kempis ; German monk
 
 

"To a friend's house, the road is never long."
- Anonymous

 
"The golden rule of friendship is to listen to others as you would have them listen to you."
 - Doug Augsburger
 
 
"The worst solitude is to have no real friend."
 - Francis Bacon
 

 "One does not make friends, he recognizes them."
 - Garth Henrichs
 

"The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank person, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness - one who loves life and understands the use of it; obliging at all hours, above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor."
 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
 

 "There is no more enduring relationship in life than real friendship. If it is not enduring, it is not real and has not found its way from the far-flung fields of acquaintance to the inner circle of devotion."
 - Grove Patterson
 
 
 "One can afford to lose anything that can be bought with money for sooner or later it can be replaced - but there is no price tag on friendship."
 - Heard's Dairyman
 
 
 "The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in our hour of grief or bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face us with the reality of our powerlessness, that is the friend who cares."
 - Henri Newwen
 

 "In my friend, I find a second-self."
 - Isabel Norton

 
"The riches man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It is the man who still has his first friend."
 - Martha Mason
 
 
 "One's acquaintances may fill the empire, but one's real friends can be but few."
 - quoted

 
"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you today just the way you are."
- quoted
 

"A friendship requires that a person wish another the good he wishes himself."
 - St. Thomas