Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

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

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal