Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

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

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.