Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

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