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

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Ability is poor men's wealth

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur