True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

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

Dig a well before you are thirsty.