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“Always run after opportunities to create peace between people, to find ways to bridge differences, please. Because as long as one person continues to feel separation… …we'll all still feel it. Close the space between you and someone today. Seeing their essential goodness helps a lot.”
Source : FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from May 24, 2011 
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“We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.”
Source : Frans de Waal (2006). “Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are”, p.11, Penguin
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“We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.”
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“I don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40.”
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“I wasn't a great background singer.”
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“I've come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. I believe that for every person on the planet. I think if somebody tells a lie, they're not just a liar. I think if somebody takes something that doesn't belong to them, they're not just a thief. I think even if you kill someone, you're not just a killer. And because of that, there's this basic human dignity that must be respected by law.”
Source : Bryan Stevenson (2014). “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption”, p.21, Spiegel & Grau
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“The film 'Slumdog Millionaire' portrays the spirit you feel in India. For those who haven't been there, the film says it all.”
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“As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.”
