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

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

Example is better than following it.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.