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.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

People say law but they mean wealth.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness,and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

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

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.