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

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

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.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

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 aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.