The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

He understands badly who listens badly.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

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

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

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

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.