"Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly."

“When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.”

“The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)”

Source : Kenneth C. Davis (1990). “Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History But Never Learned”, Crown Pub

“[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.”

“All you've got to do is decide to go and the hardest part is over.”

Source : Tony Wheeler (2013). “Lonely Planet Across Asia on the Cheap”, p.4, Lonely Planet

“Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.”

“Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.”

“A king who trusts no man is weak.”

“I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.”

Source : Nella Larsen (2010). “The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories”, p.227, Anchor