Favorite quotes

"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another."

- Jesus Christ

 

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

 

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

 

"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."

- Joseph Campbell

 

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."

- Bob Marley

 

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

- John F. Kennedy

 

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"

- Dr. Seuss

 

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

- Maya Angelou

 

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

 

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs

 

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

 

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

 

"Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you."

- Jesus Christ

 

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

 

"Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

 

From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war. I think the greatest gift of the Soviet Union to modern civilization was the dethronement of the clergy and the refusal to let religion be taught in the public schools.” ~ Professor W.E.B. Dubois

 

“We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for the glory of God and the good of souls. The slave auctioneer's bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master. Revivals of religion and revivals in the slave trade go hand in hand.” ~ Fredrick Douglas

 

"It's easy to be a saint in paradise!"

Benjamin Sisko

 

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."

- Mother Teresa