Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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

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

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.