Trust is the first step to love. -Premchand

The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this. -Robert Green Ingersol

Every student needs someone who says, simply, “You mean something. You count.” -Tony Kushner

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. -Karl Popper

Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships. -Ruskin Bond

We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full. -Marcel Proust

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. -Saul Bellow

It’s like, at the end, there’s this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid? -Richard Bach

There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another. -Emma Goldman

The ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world. -Mohamed ElBaradei