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• Great Opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. Sally Koch
• Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
  -- Benjamin Frankli...
• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
  -- Demosthenes, Athenian orator and statesma...
• The injuries we do to others and the injury others do to us are seldom weighed on the same scales.
• Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us.
  Science has no answer to it. -- Max Planck...
• If you are to understand others, and have them understand you, know the big words but use the small ones.
• For others do I wait...for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul
  laughing lions must come. -- Friedrich Nietzsche...
• Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
  -- La Rochefoucald...