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“To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Nobody wanders his or her way to a dream, and nobody achieves a dream by accident. Don't shortcut the process and risk cheating yourself out of your dream!”
John C. Maxwell

“Deux choses sont infinies : l’Univers et la bêtise humaine. Mais, en ce qui concerne l’Univers, je n’en ai pas encore acquis la certitude absolue.”
Albert Einstein

“Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.”
Thomas A. Edison

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
John F. Kennedy

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
Albert Einstein

“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

“To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.”
George Washington

“My regard for jurisprudence increased, I discovered in it religion. I understood the Gita teaching of non-possession to mean that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.”
John C. Maxwell

“When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.”
John F. Kennedy

“Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.”
C.S. Lewis

“What people remember most is how you make them feel.”
John C. Maxwell

“I am tired of seeing people battered and bruised and bloody, injured and jumped on, along the Jericho Roads of life.”
Martin Luther King Jr

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