We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

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

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

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

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.