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“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

“The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization.”
― John F. Kennedy

“Salt and light speak of the influence Christians can exercise for good in society.”
― Billy Graham

“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
― Mother Teresa

“There was pain in him - like a blister, all that was left of some lost yesterday that Time had pruned off him.”
― Frank Herbert

“In Christ alone there is deliverance from man’s tortured thoughts and freedom from the sordid habits which are destroying so many people. Why does the Bible so clearly denounce drunkenness? Because it is an enemy of human life. Anything that is against a person’s welfare, God is against.”
― Billy Graham

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.” 
― Oprah Winfrey

“Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the human vocabulary. How much pain and unhappy consequences could be avoided if we all learned the meaning of this word!”
― Billy Graham

“Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.” 
― Ronald Reagan

“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
― Ronald Reagan

“We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?”
― Leo Tolstoy

“The story of Ivan Ilyich life was of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible". Tolstoy defines living an ordinary life as terrible - I really do have to agree!”
― Leo Tolstoy

“You hit what you aim at, and if you aim at nothing you will hit it every time.”
― Zig Ziglar

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