Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

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

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.