“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” ― Thomas Carlyle     “If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.” ― Thomas Carlyle     “I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.” ― Thomas Carlyle     “All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.” ― Thomas Carlyle  …

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” ― Michael jordan     “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” ― Michael Jordan     “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” ― Michael Jordan     “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” ― Michael Jordan     “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen,…

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” ― Mencius     “With melted snow I boil fragrant tea.” ― Mencius   “The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart” ― Mencius     “Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.” ― Mencius     “The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.” ― Mencius     “Filling with food, Warming with clothes, Living leisurely without learning, It is little short of animals.” ― Mencius     “That’s like…