True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

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.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

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