The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

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

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.