If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

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

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

It's good to shut up sometimes.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

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