Silenceis the mother of truth.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

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