Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

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