The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

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 is a good reader that makes a good book.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

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

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.