A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

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

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.