Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

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