It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

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

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.