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

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.