To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

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

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Remember when feminisit movements were something men gathered on street corners to admire as the girls strolled by