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

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

Throughconflict we get to unity.

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

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.