"It is difficult to live with people because it is so difficult to be silent. And not against him who is repugnant to us are we most unfair, but against him who is no concern of ours."

"In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him."

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."

"One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil."

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable."

"Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."

"The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end."

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."

"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)"