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

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to