Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.
I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.
The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.
If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.
You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
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.
Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget these seasonal injunctions.
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.
Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.
