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“like politics?” I was familiar with the question, a variant on the questions asked of me years earlier, when I’d first arrived in Chicago to work in low-income neighborhoods. It”
Barack Obama

“How good it would be to know where to look for help in this life and what to expect after it, there, beyond the grave! How happy and calm I'd be, if I could say now: Lord, have mercy on me! ... But to whom shall I say it? Either it is an indefinable, unfathomable power, which I not only cannot address, but which I cannot express in words - the great all or nothing...or it is that God of whom Princess Marya has sewn in here, in this amulet? Nothing, nothing is certain, except the insignificance of everything I can comprehend and the grandeur of something incomprehensible but most important!
Leo Tolstoy

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Zig Ziglar

“Man suppresses the truth, mixes it with error, and develops the religions of the world.”
Billy Graham

“The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. ... The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.”
George Washington

“Forgiveness is.... giving up the hope that you can change the past.”
Oprah Winfrey

“When you’ve got a strong enough why, you can always fi nd the how.”
Zig Ziglar

“What I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim”
Barack Obama

“Every graveyard and every cemetery testify that the Bible is true.”
Billy Graham

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.”
C.S. Lewis

“I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and then correct it.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.”
C.S. Lewis

“When we hold secrets it creates shame, and shame is a great barrier to success. When you carry the shame you do not allow yourself to fulfill your greatest potential, you do not honour the truth of yourself, you do not honour your highest self. When you let go of the secret, only then you live to your greatest potential.”
Oprah Winfrey

“Preparing for the future must begin, as always, with our children. We need to set for them new and more rigorous goals.”
Ronald Reagan

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