Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.