Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands 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

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

The property of power is to protect.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.