"Children are a sacred gift from a loving Heavenly Father. Children are an heritage of the Lord (Ps. 127:3). The more I think about children, the more I worry about parents."

“It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.”

“Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.”

Source : Michael Phelps (2012). “No Limits: The Will to Succeed”, p.1991, Simon and Schuster

“And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend a life doing what you really do not want rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations.”

Source : Alistair MacLeod (2010). “Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod”, p.21, Emblem Editions

“The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.”

Source : Frances Wright (1850). “A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum”, p.204

“Stick a fork in him. He's done.”

“In South America, the government of Peru goes door to door pressuring women to be sterilized and they are funded by American tax dollars to do this”

“Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.”

“We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.”

Source : Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966). “Shastri memorial souvenir”