“War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.”

–Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly

ever acquire the skills to do the difficult things easily.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“Patience and delay achieve more than force and rage.”

— Jean de la Fontaine

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“If God has taken away all means of seeking remedy,

there is nothing left but patience.”

— John Locke

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

— Jean-Jacque Rousseau

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

–Dalai Lama

“Peace doesn’t mean a death of conflicts; dissimilarities will always be present. Peace denotes solving such issues through peaceful means; through education, dialogue, knowledge; and through humane manners.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from (their) point of view … until you climb into (their) skin and walk around in it.”

— Harper Lee

“How wonderful it is that nobody wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

— Anne Frank

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”

— Thomas Paine

“No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.”

— Fran Lebowitz