Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

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

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

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

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

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Patience is the art of hoping.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.