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

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.