Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

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

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

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

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken