Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

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

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.