To beprepared is half the victory.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

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