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

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

The property of power is to protect.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.