One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

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

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.