When the cart doesn't move, do you goad the cart or the ox?

Through understanding comes control. Through ignorance one goes on forcing and suppressing. Always do everything with understanding, and you never harm yourself or anybody else.

One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is thecapacity to listen.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.

Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.

Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate.