A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

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

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.