When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

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

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.