Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

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

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.