The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

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 problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.