We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a “common goal” of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
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History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong — because someday you will have been all of these.
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.