"People are the real wealth of a nation."

-- Mahbub ul Haq

#Real Quotes #People Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“It was my mom who told me, "Ernie, if you make even one person happy with your smile or a funny thing you did every day, you'll have accomplished a great deal." And that's all I've ever tried to do.”

Source : "Ernest Borgnine Passes Away at 95" by Harout Harmanian, movieweb.com. July 8, 2012.
“I start to think, and then I sink Into the paper like I was ink When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines I escape when I finish the rhyme.”

Source : Song: I Know You Got Soul
“I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America. I'm running for president and I'm running to uphold the Constitution, which has a strict separation of church and state.”
“Like a flash of lightning between the clouds, we live in the flicker.”
“Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.”
“How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?”
“You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.”

Source : Courtney Summers (2013). “What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are”, p.186, Macmillan
“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”

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