“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
— Isaac Asimov

“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
— Booker T. Washington

“Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.”
— Jose Marti

“So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.”
— Thucydides

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
— James Baldwin

“The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.”
— William Shakespeare

“Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.”
— A.S.A. Harrison

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
— Robert Frost

“If you don’t stick to your values when they’re being tested, they’re not values: they’re hobbies.”
— Jon Stewart

“If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.”
— John W. Gardner