A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

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

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.