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“if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.”
C.S. Lewis

“I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Can you remember your first taste of spice?” “It tasted like cinnamon.”
Frank Herbert

“(Whatever human mind can conceive, it can achieve!)”
Napoleon Hill

“It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.”
C.S. Lewis

“Don't give up. Come on. Just keep on trying. Don't frown. Smile! You can do it. If you just try a little harder. I've got a feeling this whole thing might just work out okay. You'll see. Don't give up. Tomorrow is a brand new day. Now I want to see all of you get up on your feet and look like you're enjoying yourselves. Come on, let's see some of that famous ‘Pennsylvania optimism’ I've heard so much about..." --from the recently discovered preamble to Gettysburg Address”
Abraham Lincoln

“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ”
Oprah Winfrey

“Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution.”
Rick Warren

“never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased”
Thomas Jefferson

“What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these 'smug', commonplace neighbors at all.”
C.S. Lewis

“We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.”
C.S. Lewis

“We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?”
C.S. Lewis

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