Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.