Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

People say law but they mean wealth.

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

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left