It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

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.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

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

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.