Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

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

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

People say law but they mean wealth.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.