Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

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 fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

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

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.