Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

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

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.