“If you don’t know how to add to others, then you probably subtract by default.”

“The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.”

“One major way to avoid shifting blames unto other people is to accept and agree that the efforts that turn the loads of your self- improvement have to turn on your own pivot.”

“The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.”

“One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.”

“My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.”

“Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.”

“Though men in their hundreds of thousands had tried their hardest to disfigure that little corner of the earth where they had crowded themselves together, paving the ground with stones so that nothing could grow, weeding out every blade of vegetation, filling the air with the fumes of coal and gas, cutting down trees and driving away every beast and every bird -- spring, however, was still spring, even in the town. The sun shone warm, the grass, wherever it had not been scraped away, revived and showed green not only on the narrow strips of lawn on the boulevards but between the paving-stones as well, and the birches, the poplars and the wild cherry-trees were unfolding their sticky, fragrant leaves, and the swelling buds were bursting on the lime trees; the jackdaws, the sparrows and the pigeons were cheerfully getting their nests ready for the spring, and the flies, warmed by the sunshine, buzzed gaily along the walls. All were happy -- plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people -- adult men and women -- never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy -- a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love. No, what they considered sacred and important were their own devices for wielding power over each other.”

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”

“You know what happens when you slide your cheek on the edge of a sharp razor blade? Yes! That's how it feels when you slide your dreams into the palms of toxic and negative people! Save your dreams from defamation and disfigurement!”

“If you’re always thinking thoughts of lack, not enough, and struggle, you’re moving toward the wrong things.”

“You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become.”

“This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. ”

“Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.”

“Whether or not we sense and feel the presence of the Holy Spirit or one of the holy angels, by faith we are certain God will never leave us or forsake us.”