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“We shall need all the anti-slavery feeling in the country, and more; you can go home and try to bring the people to your views, and you may say anything you like about me, if that will help... When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.”
Abraham Lincoln

“We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoever gives with joy gives more. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to people is to accept with joy.”
Mother Teresa

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them”
Leo Tolstoy

“Of all the millions of refugees we’ve seen in the modern world, their flight is always away from, not toward, the Communist world.”
Ronald Reagan

“You asked for a loving God: you have one. The great spirit you so lightly invoked, the 'lord of terrible aspect,' is present: not a senile benevolence that drowsily wishes you to be happy in your own way, not the cold philanthropy of conscientious magistrate, nor the care of a host who feels responsible for the comfort of his guests, but the consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist’s love for his work and despotic as a man’s love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father’s love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes.”
C.S. Lewis

“What have we here—jinn or human?”
Frank Herbert

“The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“You can’t colour your world with someone’s paint.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.”
C.S. Lewis

“When you know your purpose and priorities and you have ordered your day, week, or year according to them, you have a clarity of thought that strengthens everything you do.”
John C. Maxwell

“People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.”
C.S. Lewis

“Our problems are no longer problems when we seek learning instead of leisure.”
John C. Maxwell

“What you spoke of just now was a mistake, not love”
Leo Tolstoy

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