It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

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

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.