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

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

Thereare two sides to every question.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.