Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

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

Habit: the shackles of the free

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

God made time, but man made haste.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.