A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

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

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.