If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

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

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.