Renown and repose do not go together.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

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

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.