No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

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

Liberation is not deliverance.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.