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“If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.” 
― Thomas Jefferson

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?”
― C.S. Lewis

“Both my parents had a great influence on me. I never heard my father use a profane or even a slang word. I always respected him because of his complete integrity. In his business dealings his handshake was like a contract. He was as good as his word. Of all the people I have ever known, my mother had the greatest influence on me.”
― Billy Graham

“He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspected him of being unfaithful to her and was looking the other way. It even seemed to him that she, a worn-out, aged, no longer beautiful woman, not remarkable for anything, simple, merely a kind mother of a family, ought in all fairness to be indulgent. It turned out to be quite the opposite.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Adapt to them—don’t expect them to adapt to you.”
― John C. Maxwell

“He’s awake and listening to us,” said the old woman. “Sly little rascal.” She chuckled. “But royalty has need of slyness. And if he’s really the Kwisatz Haderach…well….”
― Frank Herbert

“To reach your potential you must grow. And to grow, you must be highly intentional about it.”
― John C. Maxwell

“If you want to see God do wonders in your marriage, start praising your spouse. Start appreciating and encouraging her. Every single day, a husband should tell his wife, “I love you. I appreciate you. You’re the best thing that ever happened to me.” A wife should do the same for her husband. Your relationship would improve immensely if you’d simply start speaking kind, positive words, blessing your spouse instead of cursing him or her.”
― Joel Osteen

“Having a ballot referendum on an important issue is a farce if a federal judge can throw out the results and impose his or her own will in place of the will of the people.”
― Ben Carson

“It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.”
― Barack Obama

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty. He becomes impatient and then gives vent to anger and begins to do unworthy things; he jumps from action to action never remaining faithful to any. He who broods over results is like a man given to objects of senses; he is ever distracted, he says goodbye to all scruples, everything is right in his estimation and he therefore resorts to means fair and foul to attain”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“sometimes you win, sometimes you learn”
― John C. Maxwell

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