All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

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

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

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

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.