Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.

Charles Fillmore

He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude

Aristotle

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Samuel Johnson

I don't care about age very much.

Chinua Achebe

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Ray Bradbury

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

Lenny Kravitz

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Walter Benjamin

Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.

Kedar Joshi

A biblical woman embraces God's callings, chooses wisely, lives courageously, and expects God's greater reward.

Shaunti Feldhahn

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

John Wesley

Guilt is often an appropriate response to wrongdoing, but punishment impedes the development of a conscience by taking away the opportunity for him to feel guilty. He has no chance to develop inner motivation.

Nancy Samalin, Loving Your Child