The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Thereare two sides to every question.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

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

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.