The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

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

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave