Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges