True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

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

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.