Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

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

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.