Maktoum Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney. — Mickey Spillane

Liberty in acceptance; peace in enclosure; happiness in renunciation. — Lauren Oliver

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave. — Leo Tolstoy

Knowledge without love is worse than ignorance. Action without love is madness... — Edgar Maass

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town. — Elizabeth Bowen

The child of God should not be overanxious to make new gains; what he essentially requires is to keep what he already has, for not losing is itself a gain. The way to retain what he possesses is to engage it. — Watchman Nee

There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that's not quite as delicate in telling your own story. I think when I'm working on a personal story, there's less pressure to try to get it exactly right. — Box Brown

The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated. — William Steig