The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

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

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.