Little things console us because little things afflict us.

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

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.