He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

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

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

Throughconflict we get to unity.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.