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.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

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

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway