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

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

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

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.