The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

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

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

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

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history