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“It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.”
C.S. Lewis

“I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.”
John C. Maxwell

“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy

“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”
Abraham Lincoln

“More often than not, a lack of progress in your muscle-building efforts can be linked to nutritional shortcomings in your diet.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.”
John C. Maxwell

“The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Christ will reign in righteousness. Disease will be arrested. Death will be modified. War will be abolished. Nature will be changed. Man will live as it was originally intended he should live.”
Billy Graham

“I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.”
Nelson Mandela

“Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great...”
Nelson Mandela

“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.”
C.S. Lewis

“Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.”
Albert Einstein

“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.”
Thomas Jefferson

“It is better to forget about yourself altogether.”
C.S. Lewis

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