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.
If all that passes for love were indeed love, there would not be so much hatred amidst us.
Unifiers like Lincoln, Gandhi, Mandela unite people and leave a more harmonious world behind than the one they inherited. Polarizers, like Hitler, are apt to leave fractured humanity as their devisive legacy.