It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

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

Example is better than following it.