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David Bruce Smith, author and publisher

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“Author and publisher David Bruce Smith* has a bachelor’s degree in American Literature from George Washington University, and a master’s in journalism from New York University. During the past twenty years he has been a real estate executive and the Editor-in-Chief/ Publisher of Crystal City Magazine.

Smith has written 11 books: “In Many Arenas,” • “13 Young Men, Tennessee,” • “Three Miles From Providence,” • “Conversations with Papa Charlie,” • “Afternoon Tea with Mom,” • “Letters to My Children,” • “Building the Community,” • “Continuum,” • “Building My Life,” • and his most recent, “American Hero: John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States.

His company David Bruce Smith Publications, specializes in creating, designing, and composing limited-edition books on a variety of subjects: authors, historic figures, artists, and leaders. Several are about the amazing life-story of real estate developer and philanthropist Charles E. Smith. David Bruce Smith Publications is committed to educating young children through books, literature and historic sites.

In January 2014 he launched the The Grateful American™ Series — an interactive, multi-media program designed to restore enthusiasm in American history for children.

For more information, visit davidbrucesmith.com.

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

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– Avenida Margarita

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer