The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

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

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.