A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

The greatest prayer is patience.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

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

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.