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

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.