You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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