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“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
Leo Tolstoy

“The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.”
Albert Einstein

“Today Matters People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It’s too late for yesterday. And you can’t depend on tomorrow. That’s why today matters.”
John C. Maxwell

“Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.”
Leo Tolstoy

“If poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community. And we have to focus on what actually works”
Barack Obama

“oh God! what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men's esteem?”
Leo Tolstoy

“True leaders do not make choices with reference to the opinion of the majority. They make choices based on the opinion of the truth and the truth can come from either the majority or the minority!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“But the greatest cause of verbicide is the fact that most people are obviously far more anxious to express their approval and disapproval of things than to describe them. Hence the tendency of words to become less descriptive and more evaluative; then become evaluative, while still retaining some hint of the sort of goodness or badness implied; and to end up by being purely evaluative -- useless synonyms for good or for bad.”
C.S. Lewis

“My friends, life is so serious that if you are not aware of whom you are, your "youniversity" will be prestigious but unknown!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
Leo Tolstoy

“...God doesn't wait for you to reach maturity before he starts liking you. He loves and enjoys you at every stage of your spiritual development.”
Rick Warren

“Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.”
George Washington

“The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that name: some of them are clergymen. There are other people who are slowly becoming Christians though they do not yet call themselves so. ”
C.S. Lewis

“Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.”
Abraham Lincoln

“I stopped three feet from gold, but I will never stop because men say ‘no’ when I ask them to buy insurance.”
Napoleon Hill

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