Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

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

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

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'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave