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

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

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

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.