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

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.