The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

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

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.