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

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...