Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

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

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

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

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.