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Find the good, and praise it

The next time I give you an assignment, just nod your head and get it done.

Consider this the carrot. Believe me, you don't want the stick.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

I hate listening to people's dreams. It is like flipping through a stack of photographs. If I'm not in any of them and nobody is having sex, I just don't care.

But then, like a flash, it came to me. And I realized, f*ck man, maybe that's what hell is: the entire rest of eternity spent in f*ckin' Bruges. And I really really hoped I wouldn't die. I really really hoped I wouldn't die.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.

I saw the phosphorous carousel of the Great Magellan Gestadt, saved a planet from the Red Carnivorous Maw, named a galaxy Alison. Got married! That was a mistake. Good Queen Bess. And let me tell you, her nickname is no longer-- [clears throat] anyway, what do you want?

The stake that sticks out gets hammered down.

When the drink is in, the sense is out.

A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.

There's no wise man without fault.

The work praises the man.

A light heart lives longest.

Time is a good story teller.

It is better to have broken Irish than clever English.

Health is better than wealth.

People live in each other's shadows.

The grace of God is found between the saddle and the ground.