"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"In her minds eye she sat there, in the domesticated golden sunlight on the velvet sofa, lapped around by carpets and books and mahogany, solitary and content, as if, in fact, cloistered."
— Jane Smiley (Barn Blind: A Novel)

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."
— Augustine of Hippo

"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."
— ~William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
— Mark Twain (The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It)

"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway."
— ~Henry Boye

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
— Marcel Proust

"What she saw in their eyes terrified her. She was a woman traveling alone, in a country that had not seen exposed female faces in over five years. She turned back and cried tears of frustration all the way to Pakistan.

...Asra..., I find her fantasy delightful. Who else would risk her life to take stuffies to Afghanistan?"
— Mariane Pearl (A Mighty Heart: The Inside Story of the Al Qaeda Kidnapping of Danny Pearl)

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. "
— C.S. Lewis

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
— C.S. Lewis

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
— C.S. Lewis

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
— C.S. Lewis

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
— C.S. Lewis

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"We cannot harvest what we don't cultivate.



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— -Natalie Holland

"Standards are not socially negotiable"
— Jeffery R. Holland

"There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come."
— William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
— William Shakespeare

"There are books by which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."
— Charles Dickens

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
— Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

"No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot."
— Charles Dickens

"There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart."
— Charles Dickens

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
— Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

"Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering."
— Charles Dickens

"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice."
— Charles Dickens

"Life is to be enjoyed, not endured"
— Gordon B. Hinckley

"If Life Gets Too Hard To Stand, Kneel."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

"Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he has been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just like people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, and most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

"True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion."
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year)

"You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

"You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others...."
— Gordon B Hinckley

"The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power."
— Spencer W. Kimball

"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
— Mother Teresa

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."
— Brigham Young

"You can have it all. Just not all at once."
— Oprah Winfrey

"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. "
— Oprah Winfrey

"When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are"
— Oprah Winfrey

"I cannot live without books."
— Thomas Jefferson