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“she smiled at him, and at her own fears.”
Leo Tolstoy

“intriguing people have to invent a noxious, dangerous party...”
Leo Tolstoy

“Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everyone is standing around reloading”
Thomas Jefferson

“A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.”
Napoleon Hill

“Certainly there are times in all of our lives when bad things happen, or things don’t turn out as we had hoped. But that’s when we we must a decision that we’re going to be happy inspite of our circumstances.”
Joel Osteen

“Among those Christians to whom hell means little, Calvary means less.”
Billy Graham

“I am now of the opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before learning how to write.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“AUTOSUGGESTION is the agency of control through which an individual may voluntarily feed his subconscious mind on thoughts of a creative nature, or, by neglect, permit thoughts of a destructive nature to find their way into this rich garden of the mind.”
Napoleon Hill

“The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.”
C.S. Lewis

“Trying to get the right person in the right job can take a lot of time and energy. Let’s face it. Isn’t it easier for a leader to just put people where it is most convenient and get on with the work? Once again, this is an area where leaders’ desire for action works against them.”
John C. Maxwell

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
Mother Teresa

“He did not need to be ordained, for the traditional religion of the Xhosas is characterized by a cosmic wholeness, so that there is little distinction between the sacred and the secular, between the natural and the supernatural.”
Nelson Mandela

“Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.”
C.S. Lewis

“There is a difference between Wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.”
Napoleon Hill

“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.”
Martin Luther King Jr

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