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

Use softwords and hard arguments.

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

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.