Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

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!

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

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

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.