Much learning does not teach understanding.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

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

Inspiration comes of working every day.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.