Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

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

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.