Giuseppe Capaccino

“لقد منحنا الله جميعا هبتين عظيمتين : عقولنا وأوقات حياتنا. والأمر متروك للمرء في أن يسعد بنفعهما؛ فمع كل ورقة دولار تمسك بها بيدك، يُضْحي بوسعك - وبوسعك أنت وحدك - أن تحدد طريقك، فإن بعثرتها بحماقة فقد اخترت طريق الفقر والعوز، وإن أنفقتها على حيازة الخصوم وسددت التزاماتك فقد اخترت أن تنضم إلى أفراد الطبقة الوسطى. وأما إن استثمرتها في عقلك وفي تعلم اقتناء الأصول التي تدر لك الدخل فقد وضعت الثروة هدفا لك ولمستقبلك، والخيار إنما هو لك، ولك وحدك.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, الأب الغني والأب الفقير

“The isolationists argued that if the US had stayed out of the Great War - or, as it later became known, World War I - there never would have been a World War II. By 1917 the warring protagonists - Britain, France, Germany, Austria, and others - had suffered millions of casualties and were exhausted. The German populace was starving. The isolationists believed that a resolution was inevitable without the US involvement that resulted in 116,000 dead fathers, brothers and sons.  They argued that if the United States had stayed out of the Great War, no one would ever have heard of Adolf Hitler.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

“But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“heir eyes met. They both smiled, aware that they were in public, where anyone could see them on the street and in the window. But the rest of the world did not matter. For that moment, everything else vanished. He was there, she was there, no trouble could touch them.”
― Jeanette Watts, My Dearest Miss Fairfax