Aproblem is a chance for you to do your best.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

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

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

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.