Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

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

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

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