Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.