"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

""How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.""
— Winston S. Churchill

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
— Winston S. Churchill

"I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have."
— Leonard Nimoy

"I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living -- the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.

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— Marian Wright Edelman

"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form."
— Albert Einstein

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
— Albert Einstein

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
— Albert Einstein

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
— Albert Einstein

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
— Albert Einstein

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
— Albert Einstein

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. "
— Albert Einstein

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut"
— Albert Einstein

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
— Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
— Mahatma Gandhi

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
— Mahatma Gandhi (GANDHI: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
— John F. Kennedy

"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'"
— John F. Kennedy

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
— John F. Kennedy

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
— John F. Kennedy

"And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
— John F. Kennedy

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
— Plato

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. "
— Plato

"The life which is unexamined is not worth living."
— Plato (Apology)

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"They can conquer who believe they can."
— Virgil

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
— Henry David Thoreau

"What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."
— Henry David Thoreau (Civil Disobedience and Other Essays: Collected Essays of Henry David Thoreau)

"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
— George Bernard Shaw

"Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it. "
— George Bernard Shaw

"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"It's easy to be brave from a safe distance"
— Aesop

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
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— -Aesop

"Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing."
— Aesop

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche