the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

The war of all against all.

Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear.

-- Arianna Huffington

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

-- Bertrand Russell

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

-- Bertrand Russell

I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.

-- Frida Kahlo

Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.

-- Travis Kalanick

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

-- Theodore Roosevelt