you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.