Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Patience is the art of hoping.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

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

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

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

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.