Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

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

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.