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

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

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

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.