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

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.