Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

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

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.