At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

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

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion