Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

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

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.