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

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

A room without books is a body without soul

Skillin the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He canaccomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.