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

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Ittakes time to save time.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.