Our errors are steps on the way.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

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

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

When weblame, we give away our power.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.