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 present is never a happy state to any being

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.