Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

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

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

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.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.