The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.