 There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. |
| A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect. |
| Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend. |
| Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer. |
| Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive. |
| No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy. |
| It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. |
| Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress. |
| Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms. |
| Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty. |
| The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways. |
| In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being. |
| There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly. |
| It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom. |
| The common person fears to think beyond the common. |
| Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst. |
| Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. |
| Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures. |
| No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man. |
| A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. |
