Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Throughconflict we get to unity.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.