The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

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

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.