Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

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

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind