Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

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

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

The property of power is to protect.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

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 Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.