Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

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 ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.