Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

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

People say law but they mean wealth.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

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

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.