Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

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

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.