To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

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

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Renown and repose do not go together.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

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

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

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.