Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

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

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

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.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.