Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

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

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.