Whatever your life's work is, do it well.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

I'm very glad Christ tells us to love our neighbor and not to like our neighbor because it's hard to like someone threatening your children and throwing fire bombs through your window, but He asks us to love them and that I can do

It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.

Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.