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 fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.