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

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.