John Michael McGuinness

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
― Richard Lingard, A Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman Leaving the University Concerning His Behaviour and Conversation in the World

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.”
― John Rawls, A Theory of Justice