The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

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

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.