Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

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

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

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

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

Liberation is not deliverance.