A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

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

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.