Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

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 loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

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

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Real swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused