To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

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

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.