Edith Wharton

“True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision”. –Edith Wharton

Edith Cavell

“I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me”. –Edith Cavell

Charles Dickens

“The law is an ass”. –Charles Dickens

Harry Chapin

“My child arrived just the other day, He came to the world in the usual way. But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay. He learned to walk while I was away”. –Harry Chapin

Michael Jackson

“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work”. –Michael Jackson

Simon Wiesenthal

“There is no freedom without justice”. –Simon Wiesenthal

Christopher Reeve

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable”. –Christopher Reeve

Cornelius Vanderbilt

“You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for law is too slow. I’ll ruin you”. –Cornelius Vanderbilt

Morarji Desai

“I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion, and one who is not is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people”. –Morarji Desai

Albert Schweitzer

“The African is my brother — but he is my younger brother by several centuries”. –Albert Schweitzer

Elihu Root

“Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice”. –Elihu Root

John Wanamaker

“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness”. –John Wanamaker

Ammon Hennacy

“Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don’t need them and the bad people don’t follow them, so what good are they?” –Ammon Hennacy

James E. Casey

“The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it”. –James E. Casey

Paul Newman

“If you’re playing a poker game, and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you”. –Paul Newman

Martin Luther King

“Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place, but I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s Will, and He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain, and I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land”. –Martin Luther King

Herbert Hoover

“Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die”. –Herbert Hoover

Harriet Tubman

“If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could’ve freed thousands more”. –Harriet Tubman

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The ultimate test of a moral society is in the kind of world it leaves to its children”. –Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Florence Nightingale

“The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower”. –Florence Nightingale

John D. Rockefeller

“Charity is injurious, unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it”. –John D. Rockefeller