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“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, no culture comparable to that of the garden...But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Never let someone who draws a line and say you can't cross it intimidate you. Don't be discouraged when someone says you can't do it. You might have been the only one sent to do it.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be your own disciplinarian.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.”
― Albert Einstein

“People say there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
― Nelson Mandela

“You may have the greatest vision, plans or goals as you may term it. You can call it Vison 2020, Vision 2046 or whatever. But remember, not work is done unless a distance is covered!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Clarity repositions you to quit nice activities that take you nowhere in order to pursue risky tasks that take you somewhere.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“To Believe is something, and do not live it, is dishonest..”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race . . .Alcohol is a killer, a murderer.”
― Billy Graham

“Why must we give ourselves fully to God? Because God has given Himself to us. If God who owes nothing to us is ready to impart to us no less than Himself, shall we answer with just a fraction of ourselves? To give ourselves fully to God is a means of receiving God Himself. I for God and God for me. I live for God and give up my own self, and in this way induce God to live for me. Therefore to possess God we must allow Him to possess our soul
― Mother Teresa

“The old oak, utterly transformed, draped in a tent of sappy dark green, basked faintly, undulating in the rays of the evening sun. Of the knotted fingers, the gnarled excrecenses, the aged grief and mistrust- nothing was to be seen. Through the rough, century-old bark, where there were no twigs, leaves had burst out so sappy, so young, that is was hard to believe that the aged creature had borne them. "Yes, that is the same tree," thought Prince Andrey, and all at once there came upon him an irrational, spring feeling of joy and renewal. All the best moments of his life rose to his memory at once. Austerlitz, with that lofty sky, and the dead, reproachful face of his wife, and Pierre on the ferry, and the girl, thrilled by the beauty of the night, and that night and that moon- it all rushed at once into his mind.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“TRULY, "thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects.
― Napoleon Hill

“I have been a stranger in a strange land, Halleck quoted. Paul stared at him, recognizing the quotation from the O.C. Bible, wondering: Does Gurney, too, wish an end to devious plots?”
― Frank Herbert

“The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it.”
― Billy Graham

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