Quotations

Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’ Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.’ The Gospel according to Matthew, Chapter 22, Verses 34-40

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Declaration of Independence

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God  who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei

The most violent element in society is ignorance. Emma Goldman

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. Martin Luther King Jr.

Don’t spend your precious time asking, ‘Why isn’t the world a better place?’ It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is, ‘How can I make it better?’ To that there is an answer. Leo Buscaglia

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do. Helen Keller

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, and not as many separate ones. Anwar al-Sadat

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for...human rights. Malcolm X

...we must accept responsibility for a problem before we can solve it. We cannot solve a problem by saying "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will solve it for us. I can only solve a problem when I say this is my problem and it's up to me to solve it. M. Scott Peck

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. Dale Carnegie

You must do the things you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' George Bernard Shaw

The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed, But the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day
when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last! Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Well we all have a face, That we hide away forever, And we take them out and show ourselves, When everyone has gone. Some are satin some are steel, Some are silk and some are leather. They're the faces of the stranger, But we love to try them on. ...Have you ever let your lover see, The stranger in yourself? - The Stranger by Billy Joel

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. Victor Hugo

Make sure you're right, then go ahead! Davey Crockett

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he first firmly resolves to progress in the world and then has the stick-to-itiveness to transform his resolution into a reality. B. C. Forbes

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. Whoopi Goldberg

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time. Don Zimmer

The man who removes a mountain, Begins by carrying away small stones. Chinese Proverb

Just take one, step at a time, just one step at a time. Brenda Lee

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.  James B. Conant

Today's hardship leads to rewards in later life. Chinese Fortune Cookie