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

What is well done is done soon enough.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.