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“Arrakis is a one-crop planet,” his father said. “One crop. It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings. It’s the masses and the leavings that occupy our attention. These are far more valuable than has ever been suspected.”
Frank Herbert

“To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.”
Nelson Mandela

“Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation of success.”
John C. Maxwell

“The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”
Thomas A. Edison

“The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.”
John C. Maxwell

“The only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has its limits.”
Albert Einstein

“The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.”
Frank Herbert

“Some are whigs, liberals, democrats, call them what you please. Others are tories, serviles, aristocrats, &c. The latter fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society; the former consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.”
Thomas Jefferson

“You can do nothing without prayer and everything with it. Anything worth worrying about is something worth praying about.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“As for the world system of evil, we are to be separated from it. This then is our problem: to associate with and love those who are involved in the world without being contaminated, influenced, or swayed by them. This distinction can be achieved only by a close walk with Christ, by constant prayer, and by seeking the Holy Spirit’s leadership every hour of the day. We are in the world, but the world is not to be in us.”
Billy Graham

“By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!”
C.S. Lewis

“Your attitude colors every aspect of your life. It is like the mind's paintbrush.”
John C. Maxwell

“Gratitude asks, “Why me? Why do I get all that I have?” David modeled this kind of gratitude when he prayed, “Who am I, O Sovereign LORD, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?”15 Years later, his son would write, “It is better to be satisfied with what you have than to be always wanting something else.”
Rick Warren

“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence”
Abraham Lincoln

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