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

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.