If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

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

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

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

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

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

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.