When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
-William Arthur Ward
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
-Khalil Gibran
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
To trust a stranger without investigation invites troubles so endless that even descendants must endure them. To rust a man who has not been tested and to suspect a man who has proven trustworthy lead alike to endless ills.