History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

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.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.