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

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.