Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

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

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

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

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.