Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

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

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.