“Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning”
― Erwin Rommel

“History is who we are and why we are the way we are.”
David McCullough, American historian

“Beautiful places are often alive. When you visit them, you can feel their breaths.” Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“The mind is a temple of knowledge, the heart is a temple of understanding, and the soul is a temple of wisdom; together they are a temple of enlightenment.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Don’t carry your ideas to the grave untouched.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“Learn to be patient, like a camel in the desert.
Rely on your spiritual strength and endurance
to reach your destination.”
― Anoir Ou-chad, The Alien

“If you want to understand today you have to search yesterday.”
Pearl S. Buck, American novelist (1892-1973)

“Cairo is one of the greatest storehouses of human achievement on earth, ranging from the pharaonic through the Christian and Islamic periods to the Belle Epoque.”
― Michael Haag, Cadogan Guide Cairo, Luxor and Aswan

“People forget years and remember moments.” Anne Beattie

“You have to know the past, to understand the present!” Carl Sagan