Choose an attitude of wonderment, taking in all that is being said without assuming you already know what the speaker is talking about. Let go of jumping ahead to finish his or her thoughts. In order to learn you have to risk change...changing your mind!

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Edmund Burke

So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts holdby voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

William Allen White

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

Billy Ray Cyrus

The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

William J. Broad

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin; out of any businessman's life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.

William Bolitho

All good things are wild, and free.

Henry David Thoreau

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

Norman Cousins

In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?

Gautama Buddha

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Lin Yutang

Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.

Gemma Malley

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Henry David Thoreau