It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

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

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

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

Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.