Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

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.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

When weblame, we give away our power.

Genius is a long impatience.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

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.

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