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

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.