Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

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

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

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.