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

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Well done is better than well said.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

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

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.