I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

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

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.