"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "Intense feeling too often obscures the truth." - Harry S. Truman "All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last." - Marcel Proust "There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the outcome of a battle." - Napoleon Bonaparte "We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow." - Jonathan Westover "No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be." - Isaac Asimov "When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion." - Dale Carnegie "How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling?" - Claude Debussy "The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason." - Marya Mannes "I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression." - Nicolas Cage "If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." - Benjamin Franklin "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." - Neil Peart "Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody." - Benjamin Franklin "Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts" - Penelope Sweet "We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are." - Harry S. Truman