The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.