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

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.