Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

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

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.