Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent among the crowd and in opposition to it, a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. It is only an ethical movement which can rescue us from the slough of barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Muscles come and go flab lasts.

Bill Vaughan

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.

John R.W. Stott

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Nana Mouskouri

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

George Gurdjieff

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Brian Tracy

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

Cathy Guisewite

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

Marian Wright Edelman

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

Bo Bennett

You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.

Paul P. Parker

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

Audre Lorde

They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.

Giordano Bruno

Ceremony is the smoke of friendship.

Chinese Proverb