All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

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

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.