Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

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

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.