517  The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

2049  It’s not how much you accomplish in life that much really counts, but how you give to others. It’s not how high you build your dreams that make a difference, but how high your faith can climb. It’s not how many goals you reach but how many lives you touch. It’s not whom you know that matters, but who you are inside.

259  It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

778  Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

897  It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.