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

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

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Only the educated are free.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.