In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.

Max Weber

Life is not life at all without delight.

Coventry Patmore

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Josh Billings

Life is to blame for everything.

Robert Musil

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.

Yiddish Proverb

Till tomorrow good sir one must but gaze at stars

Andrew Fisher

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing--until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.

Julian Barnes

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Marianne Williamson

Mr Ramsay, stumbling along a passage one dark morning, stretched his arms out, but Mrs Ramsay having died rather suddenly the night before, his arms, though stretched out, remained empty.

Virginia Woolf

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

J. Martin Kohe