Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

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

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.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

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