Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Stability is not immobility

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

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.