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

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.