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

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.