It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.