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

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.