A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

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

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

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.