you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

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 has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.