Mindich Institute Quotes & Sayings

In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed persons or the contents of anonymous letters; I take the testimony of those who knew and loved him, of those to whom he opened his heart and to whom he spoke in the freedom of perfect confidence. — Robert Green Ingersoll

To achieve success you will have to work hard and pray hard. Nothing worth having comes easy. — Jeanette Coron

God can turn your resistance to assistance when you keep on going on the right track of God. — Osunsakin Adewale

When rehabilitation works, there is no question that it is the best and most productive use of the correctional system. It stands to reason: if we can take a bad guy and turn him into a good guy and then let him out, then that's one fewer bad guy to harm us. . . .

Where I do not think there is much hope. . .is when we deal with serial killers and sexual predators, the people I have spent most of my career hunting and studying. These people do what they do. . .because it feels good, because they want to, because it gives
them satisfaction. You can certainly make the argument, and I will agree with you, that many of them are compensating for bad jobs, poor self-image, mistreatment by parents, any number of things. But that doesn't mean we're going to be able to rehabilitate them. — John E. Douglas

Her anger was hard for me to bear, but weeping would have been worse."
p. 513 — Robin Hobb

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty. — Maria Monk

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target! — William F. Buckley Jr.

Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you. — Frederick Lenz

He may understand teeth, but he has no clue how the mind works. — Derek Taylor Kent

Annie Jump Cannon (left) and Henrietta Leavitt, whose unsung labours and incisive deductions made Hubble's breakthroughs possible. — Bill Bryson

The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth - social and environmental. — Ingrid Newkirk

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. — Tom Robbins

People don't think the universe be like it is, but it do. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

At seven o'clock Ivan got into the train and set off to
Moscow. 'Away with the past. I've done with the old
world for ever, and may I have no news, no echo, from it.
To a new life, new places, and no looking back!' But
instead of delight his soul was filled with such gloom, and
his heart ached with such anguish, as he had never known
in his life before. He was thinking all the night. The train
flew on, and only at daybreak, when he was approaching
Moscow, he suddenly roused himself from his meditation.
'I am a scoundrel,' he whispered to himself. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky