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“Was the government to prescribe us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now."
Thomas Jefferson

“If you want to be successful faster, you must double your rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.”
Brian Tracy

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth”
Albert Einstein

“As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.”
Nelson Mandela

“Have you ever had to communicate someone else’s vision? It’s very difficult to do, isn’t it?”
John C. Maxwell

“If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.”
C.S. Lewis

“I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.”
Nelson Mandela

“When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“leaders who are effective are leaders who are disciplined in their daily lives.”
John C. Maxwell

“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial “outside agitator” idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.”
Billy Graham

“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

“There is nothing certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but all-important.”
Leo Tolstoy

“It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one who did.”
C.S. Lewis

“Smiling novices. I can hear the music of your laughter of joy. Learn, my children, to be holy, for true holiness consists of doing God's work with a smile.”
Mother Teresa

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