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“Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?”
Leo Tolstoy

“I assure you that I sleep anywhere, and always like a dormouse.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“Ignorance and Fear are twin sisters. They are generally found together.”
Napoleon Hill

“Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause.... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own freewill is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity.”
Leo Tolstoy

“A thought enters; we pamper it; it germinates and grows into an evil act.”
Billy Graham

“noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life’s purpose: Ask God.”
Rick Warren

“You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.”
C.S. Lewis

“If you wouldn’t join in a mugging you saw taking place on a street, if you wouldn’t physically attack or verbally abuse and cruelly insult an acquaintance in your school, why would you ever ridicule or hurl vicious and hurtful words at a person online?”
Ben Carson

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
Bruce Lee

“There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.”
Mother Teresa

“¿Sabes que reconocer tu desesperanza ante Dios puede ser una afirmación de fe? Es posible confiar en Dios y sentirse afligido al mismo tiempo.”
Rick Warren

“I must confess that here I had to compromise the principle of giving no commission, which in Bombay I had so scrupulously observed. I was told that conditions in the two cases were different; that whilst in Bombay commissions had to be paid to touts, here they had to be paid to vakils who briefed you; and that here as in Bombay all barristers, without exception, paid a percentage of their fees as commission.”
Mahatma Gandhi

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