Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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 who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

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

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

Nogarden is without its weeds.