Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.