Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.