The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

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

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

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

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.