The art of writing is the art of restraint.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

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 more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

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

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

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Some people suffer in silence louder than others