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“I listened to a Republican colleague work himself into a lather over a proposed plan to provide school breakfasts to preschoolers. Such a plan, he insisted, would crush their spirit of self-reliance. I had to point out that not too many five-year-olds I knew were self-reliant, but children who spent their formative years to hungry to learn could very well end up being charges of the state.”
Barack Obama

“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh.”
Frank Herbert

“You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.”
C.S. Lewis

“Therefore encourage (admonish, exhort) one another and edify (strengthen and build up) one another, just as you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11”
Joyce Meyer

“Todos somos muy ignorantes. Lo que ocurre es que no todos ignoramos las mismas cosas.”
Albert Einstein

“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.”
Albert Einstein

“For jokes as well as justice come in with speech. - Aslan, The Magician's Nephew”
C.S. Lewis

“They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and eat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.” 
John F. Kennedy

“My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent.”
Rick Warren

“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
Leo Tolstoy

“I discovered for the first time people of my own age firmly aligned with the liberation struggle, who were prepared, despite their relative privilege, to sacrifice themselves of the cause of the oppressed.” 
Nelson Mandela

“Words that do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
Mother Teresa

“Delay is not a help-mate. The cemetary is full of people who thought they could DO IT tomorrow. Do It Now!”
Israelmore Ayivor

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