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“I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.”
― Mother Teresa

“If we develop in-depth knowledge it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.”
― Ben Carson

“My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons...”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.” —Phillips Brooks”
― Zig Ziglar

“Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.”
― George Washington

“An efficient leader may, through his knowledge of his job and the magnetism of his personality, greatly increase the efficiency of others, and induce them to render more service and better service than they could render without his aid.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Light travels faster than sound, thats why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
― Albert Einstein

“A person without a purpose is a human being merely breathing because he does not know where he is, let alone knowing where he is going. Purposelessness is lifelessness.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The face of Truth is hidden behind the golden veil of maya, says the Upanishad.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Death has only one hand glove... so it takes away the body, but leaves behind the impacts. Difference makers live twice; in body and in impacts... The former is temporal but the later lasts long!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how could they have thought that?" - lies where we have never suspected it... None of us can fully escape this blindness, but we shall certainly increase it, and weaken our guard against it, if we read only modern books. Where they are true they will give us truths which we half knew already. Where they are false they will aggravate the error with which we are already dangerously ill. The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.”
― C.S. Lewis

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