Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

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

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

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.