We can learn even from our enemies.

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

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

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

I know how hard it is to shoot the basketball, so I've got great appreciation for it.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

I wish no explanation made to our enemies. What they want is a squabble and a fuss; and that they can have if we explain; and they cannot have if we don’t.

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives, forgetting loses the lesson.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.

Do not feel certain of anything.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.

A scepter snatched with an unruly hand must be as boisterously maintained as gained; and he that stands upon a slippery place makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Aloha is free.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.