A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

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

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.