Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

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

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

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

Necessity truns lion into fox.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.