Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

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

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.