We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

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