Pain is the outcome of sin.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

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

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

As long as there is life there is danger.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.