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“Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Piter: Ah-ah, Baron! Is it not regrettable you were unable to devise this delicious scheme by yourself? Baron: Someday I will have you strangled, Piter. Piter: Of a certainty, Baron. Enfin! But a kind act is never lost, eh? Baron: Have you been chewing verite or semuta, Piter?”
― Frank Herbert

“One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified. All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.” ―
― Leo Tolstoy

“Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and wll ever to struggle.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Hate is too big of burden to bear. I have decided to love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“People often say that MOTIVATION does not last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.”
― Zig Ziglar

“I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated”
― C.S. Lewis

“Put God to the test when troubles come. He won’t let you down. In the midst of a painful illness, Paul begged God to intervene and take it away. But God replied, “My grace is sufficient for you” (2 Corinthians 12:9). It was sufficient for Paul, and it will be for you.”
― Billy Graham

“The way I like to measure greatness is . . . How many people can you make want to be better?” —WILL SMITH” 
― John C. Maxwell

“Live simply so others may simply live.”
― Mother Teresa

“Higher and higher receded the sky, wider and wider spread the streak of dawn, whiter grew the pallid silver of the dew, more lifeless the sickle of the moon...”
― Leo Tolstoy

“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Thinking along these lines, I have felt that in trying to enforce in one’s life the central teaching of the Gita, one is bound to follow Truth and ahimsa.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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