The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
—Dag Hammarskjold (Swedish Statesman)
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
—Karl Barth (Swiss Protestant Theologian)
More joyful eyes look at the setting, than at the rising sun.—Burdens are laid down by the poor, whom the sun consoles more than the rich.—I yearn toward him when he sets, not when he rises.
—Jean Paul (German Novelist)
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
—Robert South (English Theologian)
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
—Booker T. Washington (African-American Educationist)
He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
—Tryon Edwards (American Theologian)
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
—Evelyn Waugh (British Novelist, Satirist)
We, the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (American Head of State)
One arrow does not bring down two birds.
—Turkish Proverb
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
—Confucius (Chinese Philosopher)
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
—Mexican Proverb
So shines the setting sun on adverse skies, and paints a rainbow on the storm.
—Isaac Watts (English Hymn writer)