If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

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

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

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

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.