The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

Nido Qubein

As both capitalist and communist states -- not to mention the technological world --have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our

Stephen Vizinczey

The question is no longer between violence and non violence it is between non violence and non existence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

Milan Kundera

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

Ernest Hemingway

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

Imran Khan

The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people who don't. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people.

Kami Garcia

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

William C. Bagley, Craftmanship

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

Ferdinand Mount

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Confucius

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Jean Paul Richter