Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

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

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.