Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

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

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.