Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

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

Nogarden is without its weeds.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.