He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

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

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.