Quotes

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence"

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 "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in"

"Shall I not inform you of a better act than fasting, alms, and prayers? Making peace between one another: enmity and malice tear up heavenly rewards by the roots"

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 "What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect."

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 As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision."

"He who is wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package."

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 Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."

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  "Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone."

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 Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."

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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked - as I am surprisingly often -why I bother to get up in the mornings."

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 A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude"

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 The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."

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