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

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges