If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

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

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

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

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!