He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

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

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.