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

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Well done is better than well said.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.