"My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead."

-- Barack Obama

#Christian Quotes #Mother Quotes #Spiritual Quotes

“The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't.”
“Tony Blair will be remembered as a great friend to Wales because it was his landslide election victory in 1997 that led to devolution.”
“In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered to candidates for a doctorate in community organization. "Three of the questions were on the philosophy of and motivations of Saul Alinsky," writes Saul. "I answered two of them incorrectly."”

Source : Nicholas von Hoffman (2010). “Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky”, p.109, Hachette UK
“Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.”
“The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013
“People ask what gives me the authority to give advice? I say, First of all, I don't give advice. Dr Phil gives advice. Mr T helps people. I motivate them, I inspire them, I give them hope, and I plant the seed so they can feel good about themselves”
“Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.”
“I'm just enjoying the ride. I'm just contributing what I can.”

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