Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

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

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.