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 larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.