In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

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

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.