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

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

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Do notfind fault, find a remedy.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.