Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

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

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.