“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”

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

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Achievement has no color.

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don’t think I’ve worked as hard as many other people.

The earth shall be left to no one.

I’m going to be the next king of the Earth.

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

It is in the nature of water … to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; … it is in the nature of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating aqueous virtue.

But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

Fill this cup to that love that never changes, never! Fill this cup to the love that goes on living forever! To the love that has been purified by earthly woes and at last with everlasting bliss, divinely glows!