Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.