Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

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.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.

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