Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

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

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

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 large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.