It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

What is well done is done soon enough.

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

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.