Weak hand needs strong hand till it becomes a strong hand

All things, even the deepest sorrow or the most profound happiness are all temporary. Hope is fuel for the soul, without hope, forward motion ceases.

The measure of your character and mental toughness is the space between what you are doing and what you could be doing

The formation of Stalin’s character is particularly important because the nature of his rule was so personal.

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves nor half the evil they say of others.

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.