Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

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

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.