Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

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

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 first duty of love is to listen.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Suspicion begets suspicion.