We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

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

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Fortunatelypsychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itselfstill remains a very effective therapist.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.