Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

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

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

To beprepared is half the victory.