This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.