I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

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

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

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

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.