George Burns. Photo: Television Academy
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
- George Burns
Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
- Will Rogers
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
- Cicero
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
- Mark Twain
The first duty of love is to listen.
- Paul Tillich
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
- Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
- William Wordsworth
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
- Albert Einstein
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
- Confucius
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