If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

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

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

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

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Well done is better than well said.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.