A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

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 nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

When a man meets his mates society begins.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.