Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

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

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .