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

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

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.