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

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.