You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

What is well done is done soon enough.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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