Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

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

Example is better than following it.

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

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

The first duty of love is to listen.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.