It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
—Charles Spurgeon (British Baptist Preacher)
What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.
—C. S. Lewis (Irish-born British Children’s Books Writer)
The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
—Norman Vincent Peale (American Clergyman, Self-Help Author)
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
—Napoleon I (French Monarch)
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
—Plato (Ancient Greek Philosopher)
I don’t think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
—Richard Nixon (American Head of State)
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
—Jimmy Carter (American Head of State)
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
—Harry Emerson Fosdick (American Baptist Clergyman)
Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
—Gary Ryan Blair
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
—Plato (Ancient Greek Philosopher)