When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted -- and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

Ellen Glasgow

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that no one would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

George Orwell

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial it was something very personal to me.

Enya

All men are equal before fish.

Herbert Hoover

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

David Herbert Lawrence

Wars are carried out by large organizations; Peace is brought one by one.

Rachel Manor

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do

Thomas Jefferson

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

George Washington

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

George Eliot

Sometimes you're drowning yourself in your own words.

Steve Maraboli

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Charles E. Hummel

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

Max Irons