All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

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.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.