Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

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 larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.