Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

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

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

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