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“For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.”
― Bruce Lee

“It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds”
― Barack Obama

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
― Mother Teresa

“Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“You may think you’ve got a long way to go, but you need to look back at how far you’ve already come. You may not be everything you want to be but atleast you can thank God that you’re not what you used to be.”
― Joel Osteen

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Be secure enough in who you are that you don’t live to please people. As long as you’re doing what God has put in your heart, you don’t need to look to the left or the right. Stay focused on your goals, and God will get you where you’re supposed to be.”
― Joel Osteen

“I believed that I would become a counsellor to the Thembu king,”
― Nelson Mandela

“Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking”
― Albert Einstein

“Be the player in your own dream life. Don't be a spectator watching your dreams every day; Let them get going!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even the enemy”
― Martin Luther King Jr

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