Instinct is the nose of the mind.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

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

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.