Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

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.

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

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.