“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of learning. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.” ~ Rumi

"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back." ~ Leo Tolstoy

“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.” ~ Samuel Johnson

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue." ~ Plato

"A message that a 90 minute film can send out, we often can't get that message across by reading 90 books." ~ Kalpna Singh-Chitnis

"The real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes...” ~ Thích Nhất Hạnh