The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Ability is poor men's wealth

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

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

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.