You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Renown and repose do not go together.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

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

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.