The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

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

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.