Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The comforter's head never aches.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

Example is better than following it.

To beprepared is half the victory.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !