Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

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

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

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

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.