Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

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

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

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

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.