Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

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

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.