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

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

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