it is the smaller, the petty, things in life that divide people. It is the great tasks that bring men together. - Booker T. Washington

In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.

Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed

Education is not a thing apart from life — not a “system,” nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.