Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Before following a leader, it's wise to see if he's headed in the right direction.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

To teach isto learn twice.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

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