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

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.