There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

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

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Compromise,n. 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.

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.

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