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

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.