Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

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

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

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

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.