He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot.

He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot.

They also serve who only stand and wait.

They also serve who only stand and wait.

Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, read more

Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. -Edward Young.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -Aristotle.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -Aristotle.

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless.
I want to devote my limited life to read more

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless.
I want to devote my limited life to serving the people
limitlessly.

When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it
proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat read more

When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it
proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your service
like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel
you, and delight in you all the time.

Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I
have composed for King read more

Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I
have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred
blessings on me.

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
[Lat., Domini pudet non servitutis.]

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
[Lat., Domini pudet non servitutis.]

We are his,
To serve him nobly in the common cause,
True to the death, but not read more

We are his,
To serve him nobly in the common cause,
True to the death, but not to be his slaves.