Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

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

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

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

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

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.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.