You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

Well done is better than well said.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

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

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

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.