Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

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

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.