A person’s stature ought to be measured not by how tall he has grown but by how often he has had to bow, and how low, in the process.
Man with character contemplates more, speaks less.
Lucky: Someone who got the opportunity – and encashed it!
An unjust system judges people merely by the work they did; a just system should also consider what they could and didn’t.
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Give a man some free time, or extra money & watch. If he uses it constructively give some more. If unproductively, tax it.
Prohibition is good. For others.
Come to examine closely, all goodness is plain common sense.
As you reflect on everyday’s unfairnesses, you wonder if God exists, and if he does, is he just and compassionate.
Violence did, does and likely will have a role. But all forms of mindless, target-less, disproportionate violence is against civility and is counter productive.