Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

The property of power is to protect.

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

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.