Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

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

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.