"The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart."
- Mohandas Gandhi

"Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart."
- Eric Hoffer

"The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."
- William Penn

"There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win."
- Elie Wiesel

"Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed."
- Albert Schweitzer

"Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm."
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel