The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

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

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.