He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

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

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.