Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

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

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.