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

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.