The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

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.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.