“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The first principle of society consists in the marriage tie, the next in children, the next in a family within one roof, where everything is in common. This society gives rise to the city, and is, as it were, the nursery of the commonwealth.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero (circa 50 BC),
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”– G. M. Trevelyan (1876 – 1962), English Social History (1942)
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Men occasionally stumble on truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” – Sir Winston Churchill
“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” – Martin Luther
“The years teach much which the days never knew.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
“The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” – Plato