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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
― Anthony G. Oettinger

“God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
― Albert Einstein

“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”
― C.S. Lewis; Inspirational Christian Library

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”
― Charles Buxton

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
― Thomas Paine

“Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”
― Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Reprinted from the Original Ed

“If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.”
― George Washington

“I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.”
― Daniel Webster

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
― Aristotle

“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte