Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

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

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.