One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.