"If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger."

“I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance, I have gathered a collection of objects that are important to me, including a dusty accordion on which I can play a few sad songs, a large bundle of notes on the activities of the Baudelaire orphans, and a blurry photograph, taken a very long time ago, of a woman whose name is Beatrice. These are items that are very precious and dear to me.”

“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”

“Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.”

“We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.”

“I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.”

“What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap.”

“Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories”

Source : David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.41, Penguin

“It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.”