What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

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

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

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

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.