If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.