The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

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

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

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

He whoangers you, conquers you.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.