And that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

Margot Asquith

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

Paulo Coelho

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Jimmy Carter

The electrifying influence exercised on a whole generation just after the First World War by Demian...is unforgettable. With uncanny accuracy this poetic work struck the nerve of the times and called forth grateful rapture from a whole youthful generation who believed that an interpreter of their innermost life had risen from their own midst.

Thomas Mann, From the Introducti

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

Matthew Green

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

Andrew Weil

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

George Carey

Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.

Justin Hayward

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge

Napoleon Hill

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Joel A. Barker