Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

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

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.