Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

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

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Throughconflict we get to unity.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.