Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

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

Those who trust us educate us.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

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

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.