Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

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

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.