The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
Voltaire

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Voltaire

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
Voltaire

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
Voltaire

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
Voltaire

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
Bob Dylan

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Napoleon Hill

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon Hill

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
Napoleon Hill

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
Napoleon Hill

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Napoleon Hill

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Napoleon Hill

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Napoleon Hill

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
Napoleon Hill

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Sun Tzu

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
Barack Obama

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama