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

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

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

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.