Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

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

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

It's good to shut up sometimes.