Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

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

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.