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

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Necessity truns lion into fox.