The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson

The things of the world are fluid to a power within man by which he rules them.

The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel (1912)

If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety. -- Abraham Maslow

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you must meddle in human relationships, try to be a peacemaker. You will find that you don’t have much competition.
Napoleon Hill

"The most beautiful curve on a woman’s body is her smile." Bob Marley

You must give an equivalent value for the object of your desire. Anything you happen to acquire through sharp practices will have no enduring value for you. Napoleon Hill

To thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou can’st not then be false to any man.,
--William Shakespeare