It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

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

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.