"Kindness is the golden thread that holds..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.”

“What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.”

“We have time enough if we but use it aright”

“"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."”

“It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.”

“Gently to hear, kindly to judge.”

“...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.”

“Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.”

“The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.”