Peace

When despair for the world grows in
me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's life may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

--a brilliant philosopher and friend.

Speak no evil

Dale Carnegie, quoting Benjamin Franklin:

"I will speak ill of no man and seek the good of all men."

Any idiot can criticize, condemn and throw a tantrum. The wise let not one negative thought enter their mind or lips.