Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

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

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

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

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

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

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.