"It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?"
Idris Elba
"Assist your Muslim brother, whether he be an oppressor or oppressed. 'Bu how shall we doit when he is an oppressor?' enquired a companion. Muhammad replied, 'Assisting an oppressor by forbidding and witholding him from oppression."
Anonymous
"I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play."
Anna Sewell
"I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balwer."
Robert Jordan
"Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves."
Destiny Allison
"A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me."
Charles Kuralt
"Wisdom is creating connections between the current perceptual realities with future imaginative possibilities."
Debasish Mridha
"What you think of me is none of my business."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us."
Swami Dhyan Giten
"Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement."
Glen Duncan
"A gourmet is just a glutton with brains."
Philip W. Haberman
"If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?"
Alphonse de Lamartine
"Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all."
Arthur C. Clarke
"No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute."
Paul Gallico
"Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?"
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