Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

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 roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Ittakes time to save time.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Thesubconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does notdecide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to dowhat it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.