Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

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

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

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

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.