If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

James Baldwin

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

Pearl S. Buck

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Kahlil Gibran

Our actions are guaranteed to affect others. Because we are not alone in this world, much of our learning about ourselves comes from our interaction with others. Our relationships are our teachers. We learn from each other.

Tae Yun Kim

The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.

Martina Navratilova

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Matthew Prior

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain

William Shakespeare

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

Carter G. Woodson

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.

Walter Linn

Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

Jane Austen

Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is precisely this glow that we can offer as our specific contribution to international politics.

Vaclav Havel