"Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have but narrow sympathies and understand little that occurs around him) that the noise is often a noble uproar, "deep calling unto deep," the clamor of wonderful machinery, of great labors, of human struggles, of heroes' voices. But storms, though grand, must sink if the sea is to show the stars."

“Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.”

Source : "A Hero of Our Time". Book by Mikhail Lermontov, 1841.

“It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

“As a leader you have to recognize that it all starts with you: your attitude, your commitment, your caring, your passion.”

“Drink a bottle of French water and then step into the shower for ten minutes and you've just received the exposure equivalent of drinking a half gallon of tap water. We enjoy the most intimate of relationships with our public drinking water, whether we want to or not.”

Source : Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.95, Da Capo Press

“The deep blue of your eyes had secrets. I wanted them.”

Source : Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.6, Scholastic Inc.

“I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career.”

“You've got a million ways to make me laugh”

“If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.”