No one is free who does not lord over himself.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Samuel Johnson

Nothing excited me more than opening up the atlas and seeing places and seas, imagining what they looked like and what kind of life the people had.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

Source Unknown

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

Joshua Renolds

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political -- legislative and administrative -- decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

Joseph Schumpeter

I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.

Dionne Warwick

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Meister Eckhart

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

Gregg Easterbrook

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Samuel Johnson

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

Jon Meacham

La felicidad es una bendición, pero generalmente es también una conquista.

Paulo Coelho

I'd rather live my life believing in God to die and see there is one. Because if there isn't one, it means there's no eternal life, therefore I will never know.

Sandra Chami Kassis