Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

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

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

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

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

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.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.