Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
After a while you understand the way that things can go wrong in people's lives; you learn all the patterns and the temptations; you recognize the ways people use other people...You don't want to waste the energy, so instead you learn tolerance, and compassion and love - and distance.
So it goes.
The right word might be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Love is for everyone. The good, the bad, the disabled, the mad. Show more love to someone who doesn't understand what it is and free them from the pain and isolation that surrounds them.