Ability is poor men's wealth

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

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

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

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

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.