Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

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

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

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

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.