We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions.
-Barack Obama
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit.
Human rights are...the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato
Perceiving her son endowed with the characteristics of Vishnu, Devaki prayed: You are the Illuminator of all psycho-physical organisms, the indefinable Reality, which the Vedas declare as the unmanifest cause… When the universe is dissolved by force of Time, the gross elements are ultimately merged in ahankara (their cause)…
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham