Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

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