Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

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

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

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

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.