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

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

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

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.