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

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

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

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

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

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.