A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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

A good conscience is the best divinity.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.