The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

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

Neversay more than is necessary.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.