Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

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 isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

To be preparedis half the victory.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.