"We hate the kindness which we understand...." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.”

“A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.”

“As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.”

“Be a blessing to someone else.”

“Look at each day as a chance to invest life into life. A chance to share your experience and deposit it into someone else's conscience. Each day is a chance to work miracles in the lives of others.”

“It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.”

“Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.”

“First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking careful consideration [of] what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, and the result of a revolution, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words. You may devise another program. You may change your goal and you may change your mind.”

“but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.”