Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows.
A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man’s possessions. A library is not a luxury. It is one of the necessities of a full life.
Tuhan tidak pernah bertanya kepada seseorang apakah dia akan menerima hidupnya. Ini bukan pilihan. Anda harus menerimanya. Satu-satunya yang bisa dipilih adalah bagaimana menjalaninya.
Buku adalah jendela yang digunakan jiwa untuk melihat ke luar.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
I can forgive but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
See that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.