It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship. It is essential for our democracy.

That time of year thou may'st in me behold,
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,-
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

—Unknown

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

—Unknown

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

—Unknown

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

—Unknown

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

—Unknown

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

—Oprah Winfrey

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

—José Ortega y Gasset

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What I dream of is an art of balance.

—Henri Matisse

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

—Francis J. Braceland