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“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy.”
Barack Obama

“Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values... it requires that their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason. Now I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, to take one example, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.”
Barack Obama

“When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.”
Nelson Mandela

“We do more for the under developed nations than anyone in the world but they act as if we’re out to destroy them and they never say boo to the Soviets.”
Ronald Reagan

“Death is not the end of life; it is only the gateway to eternity.”
Billy Graham

“the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"
Leo Tolstoy

“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”
Brian Tracy

“The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.”
Joyce Meyer

“God can give us words of comfort or direction, and we can be very excited, filled with faith, feeling bold and able to conquer the enemy.”
Joyce Meyer

“... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional. ”
John C. Maxwell

“Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying.”
Thomas Jefferson

“how we view a person is reflected by how we treat a person.”
John C. Maxwell

“Peace with God, peace with others, and peace in your own heart.”
Rick Warren

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