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

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

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

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends