Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

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

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.