To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Our distrust is very expensive.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.