We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.         ––Victor Frankl

Not only do terrorists always fail at what they’re after, they pretty much succeed at strengthening whatever it is they’re against.

—Sam Seaborn in The West Wing (special episode, “Isaac and Ishmael”) hatred bounces.        ––e.e. cummings

If it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?                            ––Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility … a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.     —Adlai Stevenson

We say that we cannot bear our troubles, but when we get to them we bear them.    ––Ning Lao T’ai-t’ai

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.                                                                                           ––Abraham Lincoln

 

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.      —Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.  ––Mother Teresa

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.      ––Johan Christoph Schiller

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.                                              ––Dwight D. Eisenhower

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which … is within the souls of men.   ––Black Elk

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, “press on” has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race.                           ––Calvin Coolidge

Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.     ––I Ching

 

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.  ––Pablo Picasso