Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

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

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

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

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.