Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

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

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.