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The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.
There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy.
Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self- importance.
Learn to live more in the Self. Come down a little bit to eat and talk as necessary.
Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.
How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.
Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.
If you just enchanted one person per day, you would make a big dent in the universe.
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.
It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.
I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
More is accomplished by spending time in God's presence than by doing anything else.
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.
If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.
To celebrate the heart of Christmas is to forget ourselves in the service of others.
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.
Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.
Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.
What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.
Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?
Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.
In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.
The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.
An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".
You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.
The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile