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

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.