"I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife. But the problems are such that for anybody with a conscience who can use whatever influence he may have to try to bring about peace, it's difficult to say no."

-- Nelson Mandela

#Children Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Wife Quotes

“I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic.”
“To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.”
“It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.”
“The only thing that was on my mind was, 'I want to play for India one day,' and I was pretty sure and confident that one day I will.”
“It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.”
“Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.”
“Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.”
“There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics.”

Source : "Muslim Radicalization Hearings: A Political Spectacle That Perpetuates Prejudice" by Miroslav Volf, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 9, 2011.

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