Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.