The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some isappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain
Richard M. Nixon
Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors
African Proverb
The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges
Martin Luther King Jr
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt
When the boss is away, work becomes a holiday.
Portuguese Proverb
A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits are bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.
Bob Marley
Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage.
Peter McWilliams
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
Pierre Bayle
What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
Feasts and festivals are a feature of all major religions.
Unknown
The festivals are like a map charting our spiritual progress in God.
Unknown
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed
Germaine Greer