Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

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 of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.