Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

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

Thework will teach you how to do it.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.