There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.

Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.

Do the very best you can.

You and I are standing this very second at the meeting place of two eternities: the vast past that has endured forever, and the future that is plunging on to the last syllable of recorded time. We can't possible live in either of those eternities - no, not even for a split second. But, by trying to do so, we can wreck both our bodies and our minds. So let's be content to live the only time we can possible live: from now until bedtime.

By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing