No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

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

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.