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

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

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

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.