“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”

Source: The God of Small Things

"Prayer For The Dying"
Seal (1994)

My Day (1935–1962)
Context: Little by little it dawned upon me that this law was not making people drink any less, but it was making hypocrites and law breakers of a great number of people. It seemed to me best to go back to the old situation in which, if a man or woman drank to excess, they were injuring themselves and their immediate family and friends and the act was a violation against their own sense of morality and no violation against the law of the land. (14 July 1939)

"You Do"
Song lyrics, Magnolia: Music from the Motion Picture (1999)

Source: The Last Song

Source: A Million Little Pieces

Notes of August 1842, published in Charles Kingsley : His Letters and Memories of His Life (1883) edited by Frances Eliza Grenfell Kingsley, p. 65.

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 3, hadith number 472
Sunni Hadith