Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Birth is the greatest miracle.

No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

I wanted to educate myself about the world and I wanted to know what was happening to people in other countries. I feel now I have only just begun.

When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.

You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

I'm a very lucky person. I'm an idiot, and I've shoveled through life rather nicely so far, so I don't feel like I deserve good treatment.

When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.

Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size.