No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

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