Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

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

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.