When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

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

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.