The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

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

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

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

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.