There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

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

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

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

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.