Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

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

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

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