Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Patience is the art of hoping.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

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.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

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

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

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

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.