Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

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

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

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

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

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

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

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.