Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

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

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.