Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

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

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.