True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

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

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.