Several short thoughts:
** The oldest trees often bear the sweetest fruit.
--German Proverb
** As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
** One kind word can warm three winter months.
--Japanese Proverb
** Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
--Mother Teresa
** A good example is like a bell that calls many to
church.
--Danish Proverb
** Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
--Albert Schweitzer