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“I got to the top the hard way—fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way.”
John C. Maxwell

“In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson

“If you want French fries, then make them yourself from whole potatoes and unrefined, unprocessed oil.”
Rick Warren

“The Henry Ford of the late 20th century was Bill Gates. Just as Ford revolutionised the transportation industry by creating a car that almost anyone could afford and drive, Bill Gates transformed the computer industry by designing software that enabled everybody - not just the specialised technocrats - to be able to use computers, and later making the personal computer a virtual necessity in every office, school and home. This resulted in Bill Gates accruing billions of dollars and becoming the richest man in America.”
Napoleon Hill

“The old woman was a witch shadow—hair like matted spiderwebs, hooded ’round darkness of features, eyes like glittering jewels.”
Frank Herbert

“The ability to concentrate singlemindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life. This key insight is the heart and soul of this book.
Brian Tracy

“Don't wait! The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill

“Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.”
C.S. Lewis

“Our beliefs can move us forward in life - or they can hold us back.”
Oprah Winfrey

“Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.” 
C.S. Lewis

“I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.”
John F. Kennedy

“our civil rights have no dependance on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right; that it tends also to corrupt the principles of that very religion it is meant to encourage,”
Thomas Jefferson

“To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association--the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”
Thomas Jefferson

“When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” 
John F. Kennedy

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