Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

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

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

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