Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of 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

Our errors are steps on the way.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares