You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know 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

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.