Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

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

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.