This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

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 grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.