If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

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

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.