Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

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

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

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

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.