A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.

Do what you can with what you have where you are.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.<br> If you can dream it, you can become it.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.