Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

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

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

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

A room without books is a body without soul

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

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.