Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.