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

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.