A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

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

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.