"Nothing exists without a purpose. Every experience you have in this lifetime was written for you to grow into the light you were meant to become."

“To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.”

Source : Charles Tomlinson (1887). “Essays, Old and New”

“I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.”

Source : "Khrushchev: A Career". Book by Edward Crankshaw, p. 12, 1966.

“All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.”

“I am a sinner, and I consider myself very fortunate to suffer something for the name of Jesus Christ.”

“Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.”

“As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.”

Source : Muriel Rukeyser, Janet E. Kaufman, Anne F. Herzog, Jan Heller Levi (2005). “The collected poems of Muriel Rukeyser”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

“Time is one of my most valuable assets.”

“You're at the hotel and after that you go to the venue and sit there and wait.”