Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree, at the right time and for the right purpose, in the right way, - that is not easy.
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/comte_de_lautreamont.html#iTrHAVoSM0yQ7D1D.99
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.