There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - theres the United States of America.
A timely smile is as welcome as a cup of water in a desert.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still
Patience is a virtue and a power too. Patience tells us that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step and that we get over there one step at a time. Patience teaches us not to rush. Knowing that there is a reason and a season for everything it enables us to smile at the challenges, realizing that there is an answer to every problem. And, even though we cannot see it, yet there is awareness that within every crisis lies an opportunity.
Righteousness is good character, and sin is that which revolves in your heart and which you do not want people to know.
Only human beings can judge and reason; we understand consequences and think in the long term. It is also true that human beings can develop infinite love, whereas to the best of our knowledge animals can have only limited forms of affection and love. However, when humans become angry, all of this potential is lost. No enemy armed with mere weapons can undo these qualities, but anger can. It is the destroyer.
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
May you be a great soul and perform every act as a special act worthy to be remembered.
A great soul is one whose every thought and every act is great. Not a single thought should be ordinary or wasteful. No action should be ordinary or meaningless.
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
The most powerful anchor on our potential to soar high in life is the past. The past contains the dead weight of experience, learned beliefs and all our mistakes. Life cannot truly begin until we are able to say goodbye to the legacies of yesterday at will. Like a filing cabinet, the past is a resource of information for learning, but it is not a place to live. When you go to work do you spend your day in the filing cabinet? How often will you/did you live in the past today? Say goodbye and make it final. Saying farewell to yesterday, last month and last year is the sign of a person who wants to live for today and is truly alive to all the possibilities of 'the moment', while fully aware that all they think, say and do right now, creates tomorrow.
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you.
Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
No matter how grave a situation, never despair.
