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

To be preparedis half the victory.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

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.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.