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

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

To teach isto learn twice.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.