Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Do notfind fault, find a remedy.

He understands badly who listens badly.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

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

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.