"Frankly, I don’t care what others say."

“Faith is the ability to have trust in powers greater than yourself, to confidently stride into the unknown, and to believe in your own abilites-no matter what.”

“Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.”

Source : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.18, Albert Einstein Institution

“You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.”

“The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story and art all by yourself. In this way, it's possibly to bring out one's individuality. If this idea appeals to you, I call on you to try drawing your own manga.”

“Poverty is just a state of mind,”

Source : "HUD secretary Ben Carson: Poverty is largely 'a state of mind'" by Saba Hamedy, www.cnn.com. May 25, 2017.

“I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.”

“All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.”

“The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their needs.”