The warexisting between the senses and reason.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

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

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.