You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

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

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

A room without books is a body without soul

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

Genius is a long impatience.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway