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

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

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

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.