Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Renown and repose do not go together.

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

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.