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

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.