Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

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

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

When a man meets his mates society begins.