It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Do notfind fault, find a remedy.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

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

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.