Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.