Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

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

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.