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 wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.