The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution, during which time he had no access to a piano. When he returned to giving concerts again after he was released, his playing was better than ever. Asked how this was possible since he had not practice for seven years, he replied: I did practice, every day. I rehearsed every piece I had ever played, note by note, in my mind.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

Paulo Coelho

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

will.i.am

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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By endurance we conquer.

Ernest Shackleton

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Edmund Burke

First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

Aristotle

I love my kids, and the moments I have with them, and it's kind of weird, it's such an age old cliche, but the way that my sons, the way they make me feel when I look at them, the way they say things, no one else would probably react to them, but it's a special thing for me.

Michael Rapaport

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

Robert H. Schuller

Un atkal kr?t zvaigzne un ce?as cer?ba. K? bizonis ce?as cer?ba, k? baldri?ns.

Imants Ziedonis

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam