There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

The first duty of love is to listen.

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

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

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

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

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.