There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. – Richard Le Gallienne
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. – Thomas Moore
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I detest politics, to be honest with you. Its a cesspool. And I dont think I would fare well in that cesspool because I dont believe in political correctness and I certainly dont believe in dishonesty. – Benjamin Carson
I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run. – David Rudisha
