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“A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.”
― Nelson Mandela

“When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you will never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.
― Rick Warren

“Stop blaming people for not helping you. No matter how your teacher teaches you to recite a poem, you can’t wear her smiling face to the platform. You’ve got to put that smile on your own face.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.” 
― C.S. Lewis

“success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Where once I’d felt the need to live up to his expectations, I now felt as if I had to make up for all his mistakes.”
― Barack Obama

“The crocodiles that frighten from crossing the rivers of our destinies are easily drowned with personal confidence but not team courage. It means you owe it to yourself to defeat your own crocodiles and cross over to the other side!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” 
― Thomas A. Edison

“Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a swift flash like fire (but it burnt nobody) either from the sky or from the Lion itself, and every drop of blood tingled in the children's bodies, and the deepest, wildest voice they had ever heard was saying: "Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.”
― C.S. Lewis

“America will never be whole as long as the right to life granted by our Creator is denied to the unborn.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Show your compassion to people in their life time; no amount of your tears can serve as compensation when their coffins are lowered!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Mohammed had invited the Jews and Christians to join him; for he was not building a new religion. He was calling all who believed in one God to join in a single faith.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Talk to strangers politely... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“A moral life, without reference to religion, is like a house built upon sand. And religion, divorced from morality, is like “sounding brass, good only for making a noise and breaking heads.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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