Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

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

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.