To see a world in a grain of sand,

And a heaven in a wild flower, 

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour. 

~  William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827) 

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. 

~ Desmond Tutu, clergyman (b. 1931)

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. 

~ Arundhati Roy, writer and activist (b. 1961)

P.S . I am not a great supporter of Arundhati Roy.

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.

~ Bob Proctor

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. 

~ Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. 

~ Nadine Gordimer, novelist, Nobel laureate (1923-2014) 

Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like paté. 

~ Margaret Atwood, novelist and poet (b. 1939) 

P.S - Chicken Liver paté is one of my favorite dish.

Without gratitude and appreciation for what you already have, you’ll never know true fulfillment.

~ Tony Robbins

We are a landscape of all we have seen. 

~ Isamu Naguchi, sculptor and architect (1904-1988)

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power. 

~ P.J. O'Rourke, writer (b. 1947)

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. 

~ Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894) 

Patience is also a form of action. 

~ Auguste Rodin, sculptor (1840-1917) 

A brother is a friend given by nature. 

~ Gabriel Legouve, writer (1807-1903

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best. 

~ Henry van Dyke, poet (1852-1933) 

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. 

~ Albert Camus, writer and philosopher (1913-1960) 

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. 

~ Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (1809-1865

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. 

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (1850-1919) 

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the one who sold it. 

~ Will Rogers, humorist (1879-1935) 

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last. 

~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680) 

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. 

~ Mark Twain