All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

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

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.