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“Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be atpeace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder.”
Leo Tolstoy

“I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.” 
Thomas Jefferson

“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.”
C.S. Lewis

“it is just as wrong, or even perhaps more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.”
Billy Graham

“Change anything about your life that cannot be accepted. Accept everything about your life that cannot be changed and move on with your big dreams!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
Albert Einstein

“By our life and deeds of love, we are making the Church fully present in the world today.”
Mother Teresa

“Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?”
C.S. Lewis

“And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.” 
Mahatma Gandhi

“He who dies with the most toys is still dead.”
Oprah Winfrey

“Cruciferous vegetables are the super detoxification foods.”
Rick Warren

“I must confess that here I had to compromise the principle of giving no commission, which in Bombay I had so scrupulously observed. I was told that conditions in the two cases were different; that whilst in Bombay commissions had to be paid to touts, here they had to be paid to vakils who briefed you; and that here as in Bombay all barristers, without exception, paid a percentage of their fees as commission.”
Mahatma Gandhi

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