Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

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

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.