Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

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

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.