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

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.