A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

To teach isto learn twice.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

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

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

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

A good conscience is the best divinity.