Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.

How sick one gets of being good, how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

Alice James

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Junius

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

William Shakespeare

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Jim Rohn

First the stalk -- then the roots. First the need -- then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -- then the elements needed for its growth.

Robert Collier

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Calvin Coolidge

Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.

Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Charles Darwin

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Khalil Gibran

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon