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

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.