DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

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

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

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

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

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.