The time is always right to do what is right.
Cowardice asks the question- Is it safe? Expediency asks the question- Is it politic? Vanity asks the question- Is it popular? But conscience asks the question- Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position That is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; But one must take it because it is right.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.