Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

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

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

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

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.