The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

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

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol