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"As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths of the hearts of people which the storm of sin and sorrow can never disturb. To reach this silence and to live consciously in it is peace." - James Allen--Essential quotes from James Allen now in an easily accessible bookContains a treasure trove of profound insights and reflectionsA great choice for a thoughtful gift--"Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built." - James Allen--"Be not impatient in delays, but wait, as one who understands. When spirit rises and commands, the gods are ready to obey." - James Allen

"Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again." - Homer ('The Iliad')--Essential quotes from Homer now in an easily accessible book (including quotation sources)Contains a treasure trove of profound insights and reflectionsAlso includes a captivating biography of HomerMakes for a great choice--"The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men." - Homer ('The Odyssey')--"Here let us feast, and to the feast be joined Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind; Review the series of our lives, and taste The melancholy joy of evils passed: For he who much has suffered, much will know, And pleased remembrance builds delight on woe." - Homer ('The Odyssey')

"Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out." - Harry S. Truman--Essential quotes from Harry S. Truman now in an easily accessible bookContains a treasure trove of profound insights and reflectionsA great choice for a thoughtful gift--"We know now that the basic proposition of the worth and dignity of man is not a sentimental aspiration or a vain hope or a piece of rhetoric. It is the strongest, most creative force now present in this world." - Harry S. Truman--"Socialism is a scareword they [Republicans] have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called farm price supports. Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people." - Harry S. Truman

"Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day." - Sophocles, The Oedipus Plays--Essential quotes from Sophocles now in an easily accessible book (sources included)Contains a treasure trove of profound insights and reflectionsA great choice for a thoughtful gift--"I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him, either." - Sophocles, Antigone--"Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practice villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price." - Sophocles, Antigone

"The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others." - Bertrand Russell--Essential quotes from Bertrand Russell now in an easily accessible bookContains a treasure trove of profound insights and reflectionsA great choice for a thoughtful gift--"We are less bored than our ancestors were, but we are more afraid of boredom. We have come to know, or rather to believe, that boredom is not part of the natural lot of man, but can be avoided by a sufficiently vigorous pursuit of excitement." - Bertrand Russell--"In all forms of love we wish to have knowledge of what is loved, not for purposes of power but for the ecstasy of contemplation... This may indeed be made the touchstone of any love that is valuable." - Bertrand Russell