Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

Assertiveness is most effective when least applied.

It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.

Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.

In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.

Where there’s life, there’s the hope of change.

You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life.

This is one of the greatest challenges of our time: to convert ourselves to a type of development that knows how to respect creation.

In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.

longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

Information doesn’t deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiences it in a useful way.

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.