The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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 understand everything is to forgive everything.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Stability is not immobility

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

To teach isto learn twice.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.