Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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

Nevercut what you can untie.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.