Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

The first duty of love is to listen.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

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

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.