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

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.