Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

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

When weblame, we give away our power.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.