"I know what I did is horrible and I have spent almost four decades behind bars paying for it, but you are a long time dead and every second on earth, no matter how bad it may seem, is far better than being dead."
- William 'The Mutilator' McDonald

"In any man who dies, there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... No people die, but worlds die in them."
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"Forgiving is not forgetting. It is letting go of the hurt."
- Mary Mcleod Bethume

"Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent free in your head."
- unknown

"Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone, and more fragile than a rose."
- Turkish Proverb

"Nothing stands still, not you or your life, it all comes to an end eventually."
- Alec Campbell

"Free societies... are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence."
- Salman Rushdie

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
- Noam Chomsky

"Obviously the danger is not the actual act of reading itself, but rather, the possibility that the texts children read will incite questions, introduce novel ideas, and provoke critical enquiry."
- Persis M Karim

"If you stand up for yourself and you're a man, they admire you. If you stand up for yourself and you're a woman, they call you a bitch."
- Bette Davis

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
- Khalil Gibran

"If you want to test your memory, try to remember what you were worried about one year ago today."
- E Joseph Cossman

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
- Mahatma Ghandi

"Worry is like a rocking chair - it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere."
- Dorothy Galyean

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms - if you will only let them."
- Dan Zadra

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
- Albert Einstein.

"Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn."
- Katharine Graham

"Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strength."
- Lois Wyse

"Pain is never permanent."
- Saint Theresa of Avila

"We want to believe that we have control of our lives. But we don't. We can't even promise our time. The best we can promise is our hearts. And the most we can hope for is to live each moment as if it's our last."
- Richard Paul Evans

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less without that drop."
- Mother Teresa

"They gave me a medal for killing a man, and a discharge for loving one."
- Sergeant Leonard Matlovich

"Recognising someone else's power does not diminish your own."
- Joss Whedon

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