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 have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

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

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.