Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. 
~ The 13th Dalai Lama

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald, novelist (1900-1948) 

In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough. 
~ Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, dramatist and novelist (1688-1763) 

Some tortures are physical / And some are mental, / But the one that is both / Is dental. 

~  Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971) 

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

~ C. S. Lewis

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

~  Mark Twain

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.


~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms. 

~ John Leonard, critic (1939-2008) 

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it. 


~ Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971) 

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. 

~ George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)