As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

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

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.