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

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.