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

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Opportunists take now for an answer.