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

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

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

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.