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

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.