Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

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

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.