“I beleive in the power of words. With words you can save people, and with words you can kill people. Words are the best and the worst weapons of human beings.”

- Paul Rusesabagina, the inspiration behind the film “Hotel Rwanda”, explaining his ability to repeatedly convince oppressors not to kill him or the more than 1,000 people he sheltered during Rwanda’s 100-day genocide in 1994.

Let’s dare to be ourselves, for we do that better than anyone else can.

- Shirley Briggs

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

-Khalil Gibran

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

-Abraham Lincoln

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

-Robert Benchley

You don’t see things as they are. You see things as you are.

Talmud

One must rise by that by which one falls.

Tantra

In order to live with integrity, we must stop fragmenting and compartmentalizing our lives. Telling lies at work and then expecting great truths in meditation is nonsensical.

-Sharon Salzberg

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

- Bertrand Russell

Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark.

- Zen proverb