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

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Opportunists take now for an answer.