Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.