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Mahatma Gandhi: A weak man...

Mahatma Gandhi: A weak man...

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

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Mahatma Gandhi: I eat to...

Mahatma Gandhi: I eat to...

I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of...

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Mahatma Gandhi: Capital as such...

Mahatma Gandhi: Capital as such...

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: The drums of...

Mary McLeod Bethune: The drums of...

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl...

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Mother Teresa: To keep a...

Mother Teresa: To keep a...

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

Source: In Saints Among...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: We are born...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: We are born...

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Although modesty is...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: Although modesty is...

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of...

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Jane Harrison: Old age, believe...

Jane Harrison: Old age, believe...

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you...

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Robert Brustein: The primary function...

Robert Brustein: The primary function...

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve...

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Mary Lyon: When you choose...

Mary Lyon: When you choose...

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.

Source:...

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Mark Hopkins: Language is the...

Mark Hopkins: Language is the...

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Source: In The New Webster's...

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Emily James Putnam: The selfishness that...

Emily James Putnam: The selfishness that...

The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and...

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Michel de Certeau: New York has...

Michel de Certeau: New York has...

New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to...

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Benjamin E Mays: We, today, stand...

Benjamin E Mays: We, today, stand...

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch...

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Mary Jean LeTendre: The challenge for...

Mary Jean LeTendre: The challenge for...

The challenge for the 21st century is to bring together parents, the early childhood community, and schools so that...

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Emile Durkheim: Sadness does not...

Emile Durkheim: Sadness does not...

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. ...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: Fear is not...

Mary Catherine Bateson: Fear is not...

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Source: A...

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George Steiner: Chess may be...

George Steiner: Chess may be...

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human...

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Horatio Nelson: When I came...

Horatio Nelson: When I came...

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It...

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Charles Simmons: Both mind and...

Charles Simmons: Both mind and...

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of...

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