Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

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

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.