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“He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure whether what he said was very witty or very stupid.”
Leo Tolstoy

“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.” 
Thomas Jefferson

“Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris”
Martin Luther King Jr

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
C.S. Lewis

“If you are to become more sensitive, you must be willing to take a risk. Take the initiative to find a need and take action.”
John C. Maxwell

“The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on despite all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons.”
Napoleon Hill

“Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.”
Zig Ziglar

“People don't care how much you know unless you know how much you care”
John C. Maxwell

“It was ANC policy to try to educate all people, even our enemies: we believed that all men, even prison service warders, were capable of change, and we did our utmost to try to sway them.”
Nelson Mandela

“Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.”
Ronald Reagan

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.  Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?”
Brian Tracy

“Of all the millions of refugees we’ve seen in the modern world, their flight is always away from, not toward, the Communist world.”
Ronald Reagan

“Always living in the safe zone of life and never taking chances actually makes one a thief and a robber.”
Joyce Meyer

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”
Thomas Jefferson

“marveling at this boldness and ease in her presence, and not for one second losing sight of her, though he did not look at her. He felt as though the sun were coming near him.”
Leo Tolstoy

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