Do what you love and be happy. Everything else is drudgery, futility, waste.

The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists.

Don't look for gold where there is none.

It is never more necessary to act than when action seems futile.

To sit around and think about oneself is futile. Get up and do something.

Everything is so wonderful precisely because everything is so pointless.

We humans are like squirrels who spend all summer gathering and hoarding nuts and when winter comes can't remember where they are.

The time you absolutely have to get off your ass and act is when action seems futile

Folly consists in chasing after the unattainable.