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

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.