True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

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

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

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

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

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.

Renown and repose do not go together.

A language is like living skin itself.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.