Michael Sliney

“The quality I look for most is optimism: especially optimism in the face of reverses and apparent defeat. Optimism is true moral courage.”  Sir Ernest Shackleton 

“Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

“I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky