Time is short—your obligations are infinite.—Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?
—Jean Baptiste Massillon (French Bishop)
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
—John Churton Collins (British Literary Critic)
Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.
—Arabic Proverb
Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
—Joseph Conrad (Polish-born British Novelist)
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
—Denis Waitley (American Motivational Speaker)
There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.
—Max Lucado (American Author, Minister)
Do not remove a fly from your friend’s forehead with a hatchet.
—Chinese Proverb
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
—Frederick W. Smith (American Entrepreneur)
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only humans, and disorder is our worst enemy.
—Hesiod (Greek Poet)
That charity which longs to publish itself, ceases to be charity.
—Ulrich von Hutten (German Humanist, Reformer)
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
—E. L. Doctorow (American Novelist)
There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.
—Leonard Woolf (British Political Theorist)