The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.