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

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

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

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.