A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

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

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.