Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

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

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

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.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.