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

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.