Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

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

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.