Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

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

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

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

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…

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.