Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

God made time, but man made haste.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.