A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.