From India:
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do, give it to what you do or fail to do.
-- The Dhammapada --
Eknath Easwaran: editor and translator
From China:
When you see a worthy person,
endeavor to emulate him.
When you see an unworthy person,
then examine your inner self.
-- Confucius --
From Israel:
3. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
The Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 7
Several very short and simple suggestions.
Do you think, all quibbling aside, that, if people really began to think about and act upon these simple suggestions, it would change the daily headlines in some way?