Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

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

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

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 whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

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

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself