A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.