Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

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

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.