WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

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

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

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

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.