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

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.

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

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Toeffectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the waywe perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to ourcommunication with others.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

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

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.