Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

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

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

They know enough who know how to learn.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.