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

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

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

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.