It is a greater thing to conquer oneself than to conquer others.
The hardest thing to learn is that which you think you already know.
The only rational act is love.
From Susan Martinelli:
If you depend on the kindness of strangers, you’d better be kind to the strangers.
From William Patton:
Never worry about anything you can’t do anything about.
From Philip Schechter, quoting the Pirke Avot, a collection of wise sayings and anecdotes by and about the ancient Jewish sages:
Pray for the welfare of the government, since but for the fear thereof men would swallow each other alive.
From John Warren Lentz:
Common sense isn’t.
And from John Abbott, quoting a beloved Kurt Vonnegut quip from Cat’s Cradle:
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.