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“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
― Bill Gates

“Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.”
― Napoleon Hill

“nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much the diffusion of Christianity through the world, as the disregard of [non-resistance] by men calling themselves Christians, and the permission of war and violence to Christians.
― Leo Tolstoy

“I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.” 
― Napoleon Hill

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. GALATIANS 5:22–23”
― Joel Osteen

“Paul looked down at the hand that had known pain, and then up to the Reverend Mother. The sound of her voice contained a difference than from any other voicing his experience. The words were outlined in brilliance. There was an edge to them.”
― Frank Herbert

“Don’t be deceived by the thoughts of obscurity that lingers around your head. Go and shine the light in you.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory?”
― T.D. Jakes

“Don’t be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Mark Twain said, “We should be careful to get out of an experience all the wisdom that is in it—not like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”
― John C. Maxwell

“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!”
― Leo Tolstoy

“The result is autobiographical, although whenever someone’s asked me over the course of these last three years just what the book is about, I’ve usually avoided such a description. An autobiography promises feats worthy of record, conversations with famous people, a central role in important events. There is none of that here.”
― Barack Obama

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