Maxim Gorky

"Faith moves mountains."

"Leadership is service in disguise."

"Dreams fuel the engine of progress."

"Humor reveals uncomfortable truths."

"Gratitude multiplies our blessings."

"Creativity emerges from freedom."

"The patient person inherits the earth."

"Strength is born of struggle."

"Power corrupts, but love elevates."

"Money magnifies our true nature."

"A healthy mind dwells in a healthy body."

"The adventurous spirit never ages."

"When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and dead, it becomes brittle and easily snapped. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliability and weakness are expressions of freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win."

"The moment a man strives for success and money, that is the moment he ceases to live. He merely exists."

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."

"To love means to open ourselves to the possibility of suffering."

"A man who works with his hands is a laborer. A man who works with his hands and his mind is an artisan. But a man who works with his hands, his mind, and his heart is an artist."

"The strongest man is he who stands alone."

"If you ever stop learning, you have ceased to live in any true sense."

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it was."

"There are periods in the history of mankind which generally coincide with the beginning of the fall of cultures and civilizations."

"The great things in this world are not for me, I renounce them."

"Man's dearest possession is life, and since it is given him but once, he must so live as not to be seared by the pain of living uselessly."

"I believe that everything we do in our lives is a matter of habit. What we do once becomes easier the next time."

"The goal of the writer must be to show that there is nothing inevitable about anything."

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

"When the time for miracles is past, the time for truth has come."

"I measure the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."

"In the stream of conflict, individuals are swept up in something larger than themselves."

"A man is to be pitied who cannot find in himself strength enough to live."