Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

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

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.