We will only attain freedom if we learn to appreciate what is different and muster the courage to discover what is fundamentally the same.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

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.

No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

The overwhelming importance of the atmosphere means that there are no longer any frontiers to defend against pollution, attack, or propaganda. It means, further, that only by a deep patriotic devotion to one’s country can there be a hope of the kind of protection of the whole planet, which is necessary for the survival of the people of other countries.

Our task must be to free ourselves…by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.