All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Ittakes time to save time.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

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

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.