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“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.”
Abraham Lincoln

“The arbitrary and meaningless tests to decide black from Coloured or Coloured from white often resulted in tragic cases where members of the same family were classified differently, all depending on whether one child had a lighter or darker complexion. Where one was allowed to live and work could rest on such absurd distinctions as the curl of one’s hair or the size of one’s lips.”
Nelson Mandela

“Real courage is being afraid but doing it anyway.”
Oprah Winfrey

“Everything yields to diligence”
Thomas Jefferson

“One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.”
Albert Einstein

“You can get anything you want in this life if you help enough other people get what they want.” 
Zig Ziglar

“Don’t be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.”
George Washington

“We are conscious of the force of man's life, and we call it freedom”
Leo Tolstoy

“before either of us knew it, we were in the same room and in each other’s arms. I kissed and held my wife for the first time in all these many years. It was a moment I had dreamed about a thousand times. It was as if I were still dreaming. I held her to me for what seemed like an eternity. We were still and silent except for the sound of our hearts. I did not want to let go of her at all, but I broke free and embraced my daughter and then took her child into my lap. It had been twenty-one years since I had even touched my wife’s hand.”
Nelson Mandela

“Temptation: Recognize it for what it is, and then reject it—immediately and without compromise.”
Billy Graham

“The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.”
Napoleon Hill

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
Mother Teresa

“For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity”
C.S. Lewis

“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”
Albert Einstein

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