Instinct is the nose of the mind.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

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

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

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