I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

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

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.