"All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind."

-- Eisaku Sato

#War Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.”
“It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.”
“For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, Friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild; Christ, our God, to Thee we raise this our Sacrifice of grateful praise.”
“Sometimes the Good is the enemy of the BEST!”
“my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.”
“My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.”
“We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.”

Source : "Republic of China culture wakens in former capital" by Tracy You, www.cnn.com. January 22, 2013.
“Father, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen.”

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