By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

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

Well done is better than well said.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

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 most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.