It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Power tires only those who do not have it.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

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

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.