"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes

“After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.”

Source : "Dikembe Mutombo stands tall for charity". Interview with Giacinta Pace, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2010.
“By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress.”
“Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single small volume, I always chose Milton.”
“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
“We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I hope the story is good. I'm going into this venture thinking that the audience is really smart and really wants to hear all the nuances of what we're saying.”
“Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.”
“I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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