Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

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

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

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

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

God has created the world in play.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.