Perfection of life is the perfection of love. For love is the life of the soul. - Saint Francis de Sales

"I'm only a spark, Make me a fire. I'm only a string, Make me a lyre. I'm only an ant-hill, Make me a mountain. I'm only a drop, Make me a fountain." Amado Nervo

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it. THOMAS JEFFERSON

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none." THOMAS CARLYLE

"The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come." - C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, 1941. 🎨 Constance Marie Charpentier, La Servante Paresseuse, c. 1812.

The history books quietly bypassed is that Barack Obama, during the most pressure-saturated nights of his presidency, would retreat alone to the Treaty Room on the second floor of the White House residence — not to strategize, not to take calls, but to handwrite personal letters

Peace is not the absence of war. That is a flat, modern concept. Peace is the tranquility of order, as St Augustine teaches. And peace must be made. It is a harmony struck via justice. “Blessed are the peacemakers…”

Where the human mind is not fed with any doctrine at all, it is simply at the mercy of the first mean sophistry or two-penny cynical generalization that it may hear from a fast schoolfellow or vulgar employer.

"Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment—the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is." —Jorge Luis Borges, 1949

What we need, as the ancients understood, is not a politician who is a business man, but a king who is a philosopher.

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

Cato, was walking one day with another senator- "Cato, it's a scandal that the senate has not erected a statue in your honor. I'm going to look into the matter. " "Please don't," said Cato, I'd rather people asked, 'Why isn't there a statue to Cato?' than 'Why is there one?' "

The more grains of rice on a stem, the lower it bends. The fewer grains, the higher it stands. MALAYAN PROVERB

I sought my soul---but my soul I could not see. I sought my God---but my God eluded me. I sought my brother---and I found all three. ANONYMOUS

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumption on which he habitually acts. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Anyone can stand up to an opponent: give me someone who can stand up to a friend. WILLIAM GLADSTONE (slightly adapted)

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. It is easier to wage a battle against distant abstractions than to fight the quiet war inside one’s own soul. Yet this is the only war that ever mattered.” — Leo Tolstoy

That which you cannot let go of, you do not possess. It possesses you. IVERN BALL ( slightly adapted)

Did you know George Orwell warned that political language will be used to make lies feel true? In Politics and the English Language, Orwell argues that vague and inflated language enables sloppy thinking. He saw that once language is corrupted, reality becomes harder to defend.