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

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.