Suspicion begets suspicion.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Example is better than following it.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

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

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

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

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.