Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

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 majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.