A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

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

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

The wise man reads both books and life itself.