The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

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.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.