Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.