Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

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

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.