A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

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

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.