A language is like living skin itself.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

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.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

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

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.