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“Many countries of the world, I said, had constitutions, but in almost every case they were documents in which governments told their people what they could do. The United States had a constitution, I said, that was different from all the others because in it the people tell their government what it can do. Its three most important words are “We the people,” its most important principle, freedom.” 
― Ronald Reagan

“Had to be here to understand,” he had said. He’d meant here in Chicago; but he could also have meant here in my shoes, an older black man who still burns from a lifetime of insults, of foiled ambitions, of ambitions abandoned before they’ve been tried. I asked myself if I could truly understand that. I assumed, took for granted, that I could. Seeing me, these men had made the same assumption.”
― Barack Obama

“Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“Time could be made to serve the mind.”
― Frank Herbert

“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”
― John F. Kennedy

“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

“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him”
― C.S. Lewis

“Nothing can replace a daily time spent alone with God in prayer. We can also be in an attitude of prayer throughout the day—sitting in a car or at our desks, working in the kitchen, even talking with someone on the phone.”
― Billy Graham

“To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Never complain about what you allow.”
― John C. Maxwell

“You can either be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both.”
― Joyce Meyer

“It's possible to remain long in the state of deprivation if you are not aware you can escape it. Knowing what exists and who you are is enough to inform you to make ideal choices.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“When you like people and treat them like individuals who have value, you begin to develop influence with them. You develop trust.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”
― Brian Tracy

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