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“After the hundreds of stories I’ve heard of atrocities around the globe, I know that if you’re a woman born in the United States, you’re one of the luckiest women in the world. Take your good fortune and lift your life to its highest calling. Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Ah, Hah! But you see, Baron, I know as a Mentat when you will send the executioner. You will hold back just so long as I am useful. To move sooner would be wasteful and I'm yet of much use. I know what it is you learned from that lovely Dune planet - waste not? True, Baron?
― Frank Herbert

“There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Maybe right now you can’t see how to overcome an obstacle, accomplish your dreams, or forgive someone who hurt you, but understand that when you get there God will hand you the ticket. He purchased it two thousand years ago on a cross at Calvary.”
― Joel Osteen

“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. Allow me to assure you that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.
― Thomas Jefferson

“You can change direction if you feel like you have missed your way... Decide to do that now! Go back a little more and begin from where you missed it out! If only you are ready to rise again, you can make a right decision in that tight belly of the shark. Jonah did that earlier!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It is simply my way of saying that I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity. Occasionally in life one develops a conviction so precious and meaningful that he will stand on it till the end. That is what I have found in nonviolence.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
― Mother Teresa

“Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Death is said in the Bible to be a coronation for the Christian.”
― Billy Graham

“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”
― Bruce Lee

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