Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.