Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

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.

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

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.