There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future. – Augustine of Hippo

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Everything happens for a reason. - Unknown

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Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience. ― Roy T. Bennett

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With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. ― Eleanor Roosevelt

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The object of the superior man is truth. -Confucius

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Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.

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Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. – Edwin Markham

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What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen. ― Henry David Thoreau

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It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - LEONARDO DA VINCI

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