The comforter's head never aches.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

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

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.